-After a few class periods of being listless and quiet in Annabel's class, I not only was the only kid in the class to pick up on Peter Lewis in To The North being gay, but cited a way more obscure and awesome passage proving it than Annabel did. It went something like this.
A: Can someone tell me why Lady Waters isn't concerned that Peter and Emmaline would be involved. (Silence) Russell?
R: He's gay.
A: How do we know?
R: Um, Havelock Ellis!
A: [puzzled muttering]
R: He was an early British sexologist who pioneered the study of homosexuality; it's mentioned that Lady Waters asks him about Havelock Ellis at tea.
A: ...I'm not sure you could draw that conclusion from that evidence.
R: [kind of screechy insistence on the legitimacy of queer coding in literature, plus more textual support from the novel]
A: ...[PWNED]
Some of the kids, and Annabel, were also all "they could have just been talking about it because it was in the news/pop science"; I really wish that I'd remembered to point out that Ellis was working 50 years before the book was published. What good is a vast and absurd knowledge of queer history if you can't whip it out and bother people?
15 years ago
1 comment:
I hope this is not the last time I commend you like this: way to whip it out!
chances are, it's not the first, either. also the antecedent may have been something like your mad baking skillz.
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