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Rafael Grugman
The Twenty-Third Century: Nontraditional Love
Translated from Russian by Geoffrey Carlson
“Life is a place where one cannot live.”
– Marina Tsvetaeva, Poem of the End“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
– George Orwell, 1984Prologue
Confession of a Second-Rate Man
There are fewer and fewer of us. People laugh at us. They make jokes. To be honest, the jokes have become tiresome. It is difficult to find decent work. We can forget about being elected to public office – as mayors or members of Congress. People whistle at us. They ridicule us. They jeer at us. All because we are a sexual minority and represent a nontraditional sexual orientation.
We are the underdeveloped individuals of the male gender who prefer women for our sweet pleasures.
How has the world been arranged since ancient times? Men pair off with men, women pair off with women, and we, who are ashamed to admit, we are heterosexuals unable to overcome our sinful passion and become accustomed to same-sex love.