This's quite a piece of writing by David Velasco

"I hate Basel. It’s the most prideful of the fairs, swollen with wealth and haunted by its furiously repressed specter, scarcity. Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice. You can taste the pungent terror of poverty."

#rememberance #pride #queer #memoir #literature

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/10/the-good-pervert-david-velasco-brent-sikkema-art-friendship/