Re: hemingway
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 17:16:26 +1000
You'd be surprised who `comes out' of the history books. (I once heard a
joke: `If MichaelAngelo had been straight he would have done the Sistine
Chapel in matt white' (: Although that wonderful bastion of society,
Charlton Heston, assures us that researching `The Agony And The Ecstacy' he
worked out that there was no way Michael Angelo was gay, no way, uh uh not
Heston playing a pansy licking queenie boy, no siree. As Barbara Stanwyck
once said: `Heston has a bad memory. He still thinks he's parting the Red
Sea' . Anyway, back to relevance ...)
I was in a Renaissance Poetry class at university, and we were studying
Shakespeare's sonnets, and discussing the one about `Thou master-mistress
of my passion'. I'm of two minds about the `gay Shakespeare' theory - in
those days it was quite acceptable to have a passionate non sexual male to
male friendship - yet our tutor ended up getting a death threat (no
kidding) for daring to even suggest it !!!
Geez louise, live and let live is what I say!
Camille
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Aaron wrote:
> > I don't know about King James being gay, but I do know that at least
the
> > Standard Revised edition (Lev 18:22) condemns homosexuality. I imagine
all
> > translations include this passage, although some probably word it more
> > obliquely than others.
> > --bethany
>
> Lev 18:22 is where it specifically condems it? No homophobe I've ever
met
> has been able to tell me. I'll have to go to the library and get one of
> those multiple translation books that you're not allowed to check out ;)