“I stood at one end of the room and watched him. Between us was a bed and a table and things in a hotel--you know, things that are anonymous and belong to no one. Like a sea or a life. And all I remember is how expensive it was. Not the room, but the feeling.”

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He recalls the power of the feelings he had with a lover in a hotel room and how something about it seemed so materialistic.

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