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giovedì 23 luglio 2009

Norman Bryson on Todd Hayne's Poison

In "Poison", Broom begins to wonder whether this may be an opportunity for sexual contact between them, especially if they both maintain the fiction–since tough guys should not be mistaken for faggots–that Bolton is actually asleep, and so not actually taking part. But the inevitable happens: there is a disturbance elsewhere in the cell, Bolton "wakes up," and the moment he does he seizes Broom's hand and stops what he has been up to. This is followed by an intertitle that reads:

My heart is in my hand,
and my hand is pierced,
and my hand is in the bag,
and the bag is shut,
and my heart is caught.

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