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Felix, a closeted writer with the New York Times, has arranged a date with Ned at his apartment. Ned is very nervous and cannot control his verbal outpourings. Conversation quickly turns to the need to raise awareness of the new disease as it is spreading quickly throughout the gay community. Ned blames the newspapers for not writing about it and compares the denial to the years preceding World War Two, when no-one in America highlighted the plight of the Jews in Germany. Felix quickly grows
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START: FELIX: That’s quite a library in there. You read all those books?
NED: Why does everybody ask that?
FELIX: You have a whole room of ‘em, you must want to be asked.
NED:I never thought of it that way. Maybe I do. Thank you.But no, of course I haven’t. They go out of print and then you can’t find them, soI buy them right away.
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END: FELIX: Your novel was all about a man desperate for love and a relationship, in a world filled with nothing but casual sex.
NED: Do you think we could start over?
FELIX: Maybe.
Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me. Grove Press, 2000, pp.36-43
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