Arthur Less is the first homosexual ever to grow old. He should be 25 or 30 a beautiful young man naked in a bathtub and joining the pleasures of life. But those old double erasers for pencil and ink is never seen another gay man age past 50, not except Robert. So it's that is those are the glimpses of the like the more serious book. It was lightened up later when Greer decided it just needed to be lighter because there was plenty of gloomy stuff that existed already.