A Boy's Own Story (29 page)

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Authors: Edmund White

Tags: #Teenage Boys, #Gay, #Bildungsromans, #General, #Coming of Age, #Gay Youth, #Fiction

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Beattie was a friend of sorts, or at least an accomplice, but he was also a stand-in for all other adults, those swaggering, lazy, cruel masters of ours (how refreshing it was that at Eton the teachers were actually
called
masters). I who had so little power—whose triumphs had all been the minor victories of children and women, that is, merely verbal victories of irony and attitude—I had at last drunk deep from the adult fountain of sex. I wiped my mouth with the back of an adult hand, smiled and walked up to the dining hall humming a little tune.

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