Love Story?

Jonathan and David

Anachronistic readings of ancient texts is one of the most annoying facets of reading such documents, for the fact is we lack the information required to make a determination about whether or not we are reading into the text what was not there to begin with.

An excellent example of this is the story of David and Jonathan from the First Book of Samuel. It has been read anachronistically for decades if not centuries. In this case was there a “love affair” between David and Jonathan? Or are we moderns reading more into the text than is warranted by the documents?

The Queers are Coming!

The Queers are Coming!

Edward Albee

More than 40 years ago several American Theatre critics were afflicted with a terrible fear that the American way of life was under insidious attack by an evil force that sought to undermine and destroy the family and marriage.

That evil force was the "Homosexual" playwright who because of his distorted sense of self wrote about the family and women in a false and insidious fashion and therefore undermined both.

Ender

Meets Hamlet

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This is one of those WTF!1 discoveries that make life interesting and annoying at the same time. In this case the WTF moment was brought to us by Orson Scott Card (1951- ),2 Science Fiction and Fantasy writer.