it sounds like someone boasting in order to repair their self-respect after losing a fight
Aww, jeez.
That whole Scribners male literary circle was pretty messed-up about queerness -- Fitzgerald mainly cut it out of his novels, but Wolfe and Hemingway devote a lot of time to the magnetism of male friendship and the horror they felt at male homosexuals. Ernest wasn't great about Gertrude Stein, either, although that had more to do with his inevitably turning on patrons out of his almost pathological need to seem independent.
//has read way too much about these guys
I forget whether Orwell writes about sexual assault in Down and Out -- altho of course he was older, wasn't he? Didn't he start tramping in his mid-twenties?
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Date: 2020-12-01 04:52 pm (UTC)Aww, jeez.
That whole Scribners male literary circle was pretty messed-up about queerness -- Fitzgerald mainly cut it out of his novels, but Wolfe and Hemingway devote a lot of time to the magnetism of male friendship and the horror they felt at male homosexuals. Ernest wasn't great about Gertrude Stein, either, although that had more to do with his inevitably turning on patrons out of his almost pathological need to seem independent.
//has read way too much about these guys
I forget whether Orwell writes about sexual assault in Down and Out -- altho of course he was older, wasn't he? Didn't he start tramping in his mid-twenties?