State v. Onorato

In Colin Wilson’s weird sex diary3 — the diary of an existentialist — the author is quoted on the jacket as saying: “[T]his book was written because I feel no one has ever treated sex, from the man’s angle, with intelligence as well as frankness. I believe a writer should, so far *445as he can, ‘tell the whole truth’ about himself. This book, I hope, speaks for itself.” It does. Skilled reviewers4 5have variously described this fictional novel as “dismal,” “fatuous,” “woeful stuff,” “contradictory,” “seedy,” “wearisomely repetitious,” and “drab” — to mention only a few descriptive phrases. The…