In reading about Tchaikovsky and 'Bob' why does Maurice not see that it would be possible to have a relationship with another man? I'm not sure. Maybe because Maurice's ideal has always been a "friend", someone near to his own age. I think the Tchaikovsky story comes across as an old unhappy old man perving over a young relative, which might not be the kind of future he wants to imagine, particularly not after his remorse over the Dickie episode.
*Maurice speaks of turning 'to the practices he had abandoned as a boy'. Does he mean masturbation? That's what I thought. I'm not sure I can believe he's not done it at all since he was younger, but if he's trained himself to go without (or very little), maybe it's only now that he's been defining his feelings as lust that keeping himself busy isn't enough to go on as he used to.
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Date: 2009-07-26 04:58 pm (UTC)I'm not sure. Maybe because Maurice's ideal has always been a "friend", someone near to his own age. I think the Tchaikovsky story comes across as an old unhappy old man perving over a young relative, which might not be the kind of future he wants to imagine, particularly not after his remorse over the Dickie episode.
*Maurice speaks of turning 'to the practices he had abandoned as a boy'. Does he mean masturbation?
That's what I thought. I'm not sure I can believe he's not done it at all since he was younger, but if he's trained himself to go without (or very little), maybe it's only now that he's been defining his feelings as lust that keeping himself busy isn't enough to go on as he used to.