Summary

"Jacob’s Journals – That Boy": Jacob describes, to Doc, his relationship with the beautiful altar boy Joseph, referred to by Death in his interview with Satan (Section 8). Jacob describes how he and Joseph were friends at first, but after a near-sexual encounter (in which Jacob was positioned in a submissive posture, on his knees, similar to that he adopted with the dominant leather man – Section 7), Joseph became part of a group of students who humiliated Jacob first by urinating on him in the shower (which, he says, was not so bad) and then by a beating that resulted in him being sent to Stockholm. These experiences, he says, were not as bad as those suffered by some of the people they (he and Doc) knew, all-American boys that, Jacob says, should have been taught how to behave, instead of the “homos” being...