When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love" (1.9.12).
This is from Campion, one of the novel’s gay characters. What do we make of the way his sexuality is handled in the novel? Dick certainly has some interesting opinions, as we see in his interactions with Francisco Pardo y Ciudad Real. What do you think though? Is Campion right? Is the possibility of a deep love worth the risk of pain?