tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043902910664985292.post5347214118246877084..comments2023-06-07T01:25:17.045-07:00Comments on Raymond Bally Enterprises: MY QUEER WARRaymond Ballyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16173379006630949906noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043902910664985292.post-13304361798220018042018-09-24T13:06:25.678-07:002018-09-24T13:06:25.678-07:00I just found this link and I guess I answered my o...I just found this link and I guess I answered my own question LOL. Yes, indeed it is the same author! <br />https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/sep/24/james-lord-obituaryAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01995620211564385065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043902910664985292.post-43314496831465973292018-09-24T12:56:47.725-07:002018-09-24T12:56:47.725-07:00I was looking up James Lord the author of A Giacom...I was looking up James Lord the author of A Giacometti Portrait and found this book, I assume it is not the same person?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01995620211564385065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043902910664985292.post-85552833778263166572017-11-24T12:27:11.062-08:002017-11-24T12:27:11.062-08:00I found this book by random chance at the much abu...I found this book by random chance at the much abused Frances Howard Goldwyn Library in Hollywood. I had been earnestly trying to read some classics that were neglected in my education such as Camus, Virginia Woolfe, Harper Lee...but I found my attention wandering, completion something of a chore, and I was looking for something more personally relevant. I have to say that I have found that and more. I haven't been this deeply engrossed in a novel since perhaps childhood; and yes, while the writing is insufferably florid at times, and has me constantly googling this or that arcane word or reference (which, honestly, is its own pleasure)-- the overall heartbeat of a queer man looking for love and meaning in this world is so resonant with my own experience that I find myself almost unbearably affected by his heartbreaks and romantic could-have-beens as if it was I myself in love with Hanno, or as if it was I myself forced to torture prisoners in a DP camp... I can feel it all so vividly, as if I have taken a tour in his soul. And though there is much darkness in Jim Lord's world, I somehow find his experiences deeply validating and encouraging... for I too have suffered unrequited love in the perfection of youth for a man whose affections were ambiguous... I too swore to stifle my impulses and longed for spiritual transcendence... I too experienced the raptures and pitfalls of sexual liberation and experimentation and entrance into the 'gay' life. Somehow I find this older soul closer to my own, and in deeper consonance with the way i want to be in the world than the aggressively shallow and spiritually vacant gay world of west hollywood where I have yet to find the love I may have come to California looking for. My Queer War has given me a strange sort of hope for my own queer life and the man I wish to become, and a perspective on some of the more difficult facets of the queer experience that may not be so worthy of self-recrimination ... love and pain are deeply conjoined companions in every gay man's heart and it brings me a strange sort of comfort to know that this is a shared experience. <br /><br />however, if I could ask T/3 Lord something today, it would be-- why the hell did you not sleep with Major Jones?? He sounded amazingly hot! This I can't wrap my head around. because he was still nursing a platonic ideal of his first infatuation with Hanno? move on solider! what I would give for that opportunity...!DJFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07523427213140500536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043902910664985292.post-1252732994955872452017-11-24T12:25:37.682-08:002017-11-24T12:25:37.682-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.DJFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07523427213140500536noreply@blogger.com