![]() ![]() He finally has his first sexual experience, fellating a soldier on a secluded beach: “this was the realest moment of his life.” Even if we accept that, Galgut’s focus on Morgan’s sexual needs is reductive. Morgan works for the Red Cross in Alexandria, visiting hospitalized soldiers. Another opportunity to travel arises in 1915. ![]() Aside from his reunion with Masood, his first visit to India introduces Morgan to its religious and caste divisions and its frequently obnoxious British rulers it also sows the first seeds of A Passage to India, written years later. “Friendship is your Empire, Morgan,” declared the anti-imperialist Indian. While Masood gently rejected Morgan’s advances, the friendship blossomed. In England some years before, he became friends with Masood, an aristocratic young Muslim Indian. His four published novels have examined heterosexual relationships his gay novel, Maurice, will be published posthumously. He’s a timid mama’s boy, a closeted gay man, still a virgin at 33. A British army officer tells him of his many sexual conquests of Indian men and boys Morgan finds this titillating. Morgan, as he is known, is on a vessel steaming toward India in 1912. Forster, Galgut (In a Strange Room, 2010, etc.) focuses on the novelist’s visits to India, his time in Egypt and his homoerotic yearnings. ![]()
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