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Desire, who has not known the agony of longing or fallen as if suddenly evacuated of any personal

will under the irresistible drive of desire, who's not lamented its amoral unfairness, who's

not found all their neat categories and carefully tended taxonomies upended by it, desire

makes wise men fools and yet.

You're listening to Navara FM here on Resonance 104.4 FM London's finest radio station,

I am James Butler.

Jonathan Dolomall, to my mind, one of Britain's finest thinkers about literature, about sex

and about the politics that spring from those two things, has written a memoir called

Desire.

It is an extraordinary book, a story about sexuality, yes, in all its messy and compelling

forms as lived, especially by gay men, but also larger than any mere tribalism or identity.

But it's also a book about lived experience that, most fashionable of terms, the lived

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