chronicle of a plague, by andrew holleran
Sunday, November 27th, 2016
…we have lost a whole generation of gay men, who might otherwise have been valuable mentors to their successors.
I began to read books about other epochs in history when people had been subjected to cruel and unusual catastrophes. The Black Death was the most obvious…
It appears in the midst of the most ordinary circumstances—like the man on that same beach, who, in the middle of a cloudless summer afternoon, turned to my friend and said, “What is the point of going on?” (“To bear witness,” my friend responded.) The Fear is there all the time, but it comes in surges, like electricity—
