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...subjects for fiction go, 9/11 is pretty much in the maximum-degree-of-difficulty category. "I was very hesitant," Foer remembers. "I felt like I wasn't sure how much it was my story to tell." But he thought somebody needed to write about the attacks in a way that was depoliticized, stripped of ideology, of everything but pure tragedy. "So much of the reason I wrote the book was because I was tired of the tellings of [the Twin Tower bombings] having messages, having points. What I wanted was exactly to make something that didn't have a point...
...characters that were palatable to straight audiences but tripped the gaydar of knowing viewers--say, Paul Lynde's queeny Uncle Arthur on Bewitched. (In advertising, such dual signals are called gay vague.) Even Sex and the City, with its witty, sexually assertive women, was reminiscent of the old maxim "Write gay, cast straight...
Mostly, though, these writers are asserting their right to be gay yet to write straight. Which raises the question, Couldn't straight men or women have created these shows? Probably. But they didn't. Instead, these writers have taken the idea of a gay sensibility beyond the old campy, fey stereotypes. Their shows have the subtler sensibility defined by gay film historian Vito Russo in The Celluloid Closet, his study of the influence of gays on the movies: "A natural conviction that difference exists but doesn't matter, that there's no such thing as normal even when a majority...
Justice Antonin Scalia deigned to write a dissenting opinion in which he called the decision a “mockery,” claiming that this decision somehow contradicted Alexander Hamilton’s assertion that the judiciary has “merely judgment,” as opposed to a will of its own. Scalia did not deign to explain why Hamilton—or, more exactly, Hamilton’s political propaganda—is more pertinent to the U.S. Constitution than a majority of current Justices, nor how, exactly, the Court might have violated this dictum...
...imagined, writing my thesis, that I would feel great having turned it in. And of course it is nice, in some ways, to have it done: I no longer have a daily quota of pages to write, no longer have cause to visit Widener regularly, no longer consider the respective advantages of MLA and Chicago-style methods of citation. But I did not anticipate the emptiness of a life in which Byron has suddenly become superfluous...