Bonus

lust

“Lust is a tool,” he said. “It brings humans together, certainly… helps people connect and keeps the fires burning through the years, so to speak. Lust, in fact, leads to beauty.” His voice was a drone in the back of my head. Pendantic, that was the word. “It is too easy to say that lust is about corruption.”

“Easy, maybe,” I said. “But not wrong.”

— From the Thought-record of Macy Hamilton