Abstract
In this piece, the author contemplates aging, desire, mortality, and sexuality in the age of AIDS. Through notes involving memory and reverie, the author reticulates a kind of nachtraglichkeit and proffers past and present generations of gay men recognition.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank Stephen Hartman and Adrienne Harris for their generous encouragement and helpful comments toward the writing of this text. Excerpt from Borrowed Time by Paul Monette. Copyright © 1988 by Paul Monette. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.