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"I hold you, dearest boy, in my innermost love, & count on your feeling me—in every throb of your soul" Throbbing platonic love.
by squigz 1y ago
"I hold you, dearest boy, in my innermost love, & count on your feeling me—in every throb of your soul"
Throbbing platonic love.
- qoez 1y agoI earnestly feel like that's our modern language coloring our reading of it. The heart throbs blood. I have a lot of brotherly heartfelt love for friends without it being sexual.
- foldr 1y agoWe know that it's not just our modern language coloring our reading of it because Henry James's family wanted these passages removed from the published versions of the letters, precisely because they didn't want them to be 'misconstrued' as expressions of sexuality. The first volume of letters referred to in this article was published in 1920.
- sillyfluke 1y agoRetro Streisand effect in action.
- fundaThree 1y ago> I earnestly feel like that's our modern language coloring our reading of it. You are reading modern language. Sexual identity was already a thing at this point in history and had been for several decades.
- DonHopkins 1y agoIt's always important to be earnest... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVQIB-QuooU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVQIB-QuooU
- NelsonMinar 1y agoAmazing how your comment is voted down. Here in a discussion about queer erasure.