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He started his essay w/ the example of a gay person. If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority.
by sheensleeves 11y ago
He started his essay w/ the example of a gay person.
If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority.
edit: you're right.
- dharbin 11y agoI'm pretty sure, in 1901, gay meant: keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits <a bird's gay spring song>
- bherms 11y agoIn that time, gay did not mean homosexual, but happy. Twain was saying he was happy and impudent and satirical and delightful, characteristics you wouldn't necessarily expect a slave to have.