I rescued three paperback books from the wastebasket at the Morningside Heights branch of the New York Public Library. Two of them are by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987): A Coin in Nine Hands and Two Lives and a Dream. (The third book, Marianne Moore, is a study of her life and poetry.)
My introduction to Yourcenar was a Selected Shorts reading on the radio of one of her short stories. I'm looking forward to reading her two books. Skimming through them, they looked very inviting.
To get a little background on her, I consulted my copy of The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage and learned that Yourcenar "was a lesbian who spent forty-two years with the same woman; yet she spoke of homosexuality in her work almost exclusively through male characters."
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I know this isn't about Michael Jackson, but that other post was so old I thought you might not see the comment. Sorry. :)
ReplyDeleteMichael Jackson was gay.
http://desireespeakssolisten.blogspot.com/2011/01/addendum-to-michael-jackson-was-gay_06.html
http://desireespeakssolisten.blogspot.com/2011/01/rebuttals-to-my-michael-jackson-was-gay.html
Please ignore the above comment. The agenda behind the poster and the blog is one that is neferiously deceptive, which is clearly proven on this blog:
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Slander should not go unchallenged. Also thank you for the other posts, which makes it clear that opinions are just opinions. Michael said he was not gay, and was also found not guilty on all counts in a court of law. His death should put this argument to rest.