I very much enjoyed this. As I was getting into it, the voices, the dialogue, and then:
It occurred to Steve that if he tried to be all the best and most enduring things about his country, Tony was the modern America: celebrity, technology, promiscuity, excess, wealth. Neurosis. Speed. Loud, awful music.
But also ingenuity and passion, and technology wasn't a bad thing. Besides, you couldn't pick and choose which America to live in or which parts to have. Steve had no illusions that there weren't a lot of broken things about his country, but you had to take the package deal and hope to fix the broken parts.
And that's just brilliant.
Steve making a plan for, well, seduction is perfect as is the way his and Tony's different attitudes to sex comes into play.
"I want you to know that I consider you a very gifted man," Tony said. "And that's coming from someone who used to make missiles for a living." Is possibly the best line about someone's endowment I've ever read.
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It occurred to Steve that if he tried to be all the best and most enduring things about his country, Tony was the modern America: celebrity, technology, promiscuity, excess, wealth. Neurosis. Speed. Loud, awful music.
But also ingenuity and passion, and technology wasn't a bad thing. Besides, you couldn't pick and choose which America to live in or which parts to have. Steve had no illusions that there weren't a lot of broken things about his country, but you had to take the package deal and hope to fix the broken parts.
And that's just brilliant.
Steve making a plan for, well, seduction is perfect as is the way his and Tony's different attitudes to sex comes into play.
"I want you to know that I consider you a very gifted man," Tony said. "And that's coming from someone who used to make missiles for a living."
Is possibly the best line about someone's endowment I've ever read.
Thanks!