Literature and Truths
“Mais la verite, vous le savez, c’est ce qui simplife le monde et non ce qui cree le chaos.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But truth, you know, it’s what simplifies the world and not what creates chaos.
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I am currently taking an English class called Queer Saints and Sinners: Religion and Sexuality in the Modernist. You see the word “queer” in the title, so you probably, like me, think that the class sounds very interesting.
It was at first. I’ve since been disillusioned.
The more appropriate title for the class should be: Leisurely Affluent White British Men and the Literature they Wrote About Catholicism with Implicit Homosexual Undertones. Some of the books have been great, (*cough* Hindoo Holiday, Brideshead Revisited *cough*) the remaining have been…well…see the aforementioned title.
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