I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just said porn," Scarlett said. "No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me.

I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune in electrical and electronic equipment. We had no fancy equipment and did not miss it.

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

I am a mass of contradictions.

She wasn't only gay, she was a gay elf.