Omg

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I just discovered T.E. Lawrence's, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. It truly is a literary masterpiece.

I knew Lawrence was queer but am surprised at how he framed it in the book. Its not exactly coming out of a closet to the applause of friends & family, there's no shame or apology in it, its more like a revelation that he and his comrades shared what they had, and they had little.

I'm also surprised at how good the writing is.

"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament,"

 

[Saxon Stonedyke]

Who hacked JBJ's account and posted something complementary about a gay person? Come on now, fess up!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Who hacked JBJ's account and posted something complementary about a gay person? Come on now, fess up!

I've known maybe 2 queers in my life who kept their sexuality in its proper place and context. Lawrence is #2.

 

[Saxon Stonedyke]

Ah, but the fact that you acknowledge the two is a small in road for the light.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Ah, but the fact that you acknowledge the two is a small in road for the light.

No. I've posted on other occasions that things would go easier for Fags if they stopped dressing like Mummers and exploiting every event to promote their sexual availability. Its like one long, dreary infomercial filmed with ugly people.

 

[colddiesel]

Who hacked JBJ's account and posted something complementary about a gay person? Come on now, fess up!

JBJ has previously told of his admiration for Capote who was gay and Hemingway who was at least confused. JBJ is unusual on this Board as being one of the few here to take an interest in literary quality.

Oddly enough in this case the whilst Lawrence was certainly a masochist (almost compulsory for the British "upper class") no evidence has ever been found to show that he had a sexual relationship with anybody of either sex. The Gay community has, however, been successful in recruiting post mortem, both Lawrence and a number of great historical figures to their cause: Alexander the Barbarian, Nelson, Richard I are just a few more examples. The total absence of evidence doesn't seem to be an impediment.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

JBJ has previously told of his admiration for Capote who was gay and Hemingway who was at least confused. JBJ is unusual on this Board as being one of the few here to take an interest in literary quality.

Oddly enough in this case the whilst Lawrence was certainly a masochist (almost compulsory for the British "upper class") no evidence has ever been found to show that he had a sexual relationship with anybody of either sex. The Gay community has, however, been successful in recruiting post mortem, both Lawrence and a number of great historical figures to their cause: Alexander the Barbarian, Nelson, Richard I are just a few more examples. The total absence of evidence doesn't seem to be an impediment.

There are others: W.Somerset Maughm comes to mind.

My problems with gays is political. My oldest friend and I parted company after 50-plus years when I posted an old GAY WARNING PSA I found on YouTube. In 1960 Fag was an official mental disorder, and my friend and I were first in the homophobe line back then. He was prolly worse than me. But now he has a gay son who lives in San Francisco, and he's touchy about the subject. I dont care that his son is a fag. The kid has many excellent qualities, and as long as he leaves his Gay cape and Rainbow Underalls at home, no problem. When someone tries to sell you their lifestyle its like them twisting your arm to buy a used car from them.

I posted the old PSA and my old friends asshole suddenly became an airlock.

But I aint gonna pretend that I embrace the lifestyle now or 50 years ago. Its like pretending I didnt come out of my mom's vagina. Or get drunk. Or make a fool outta myself in a 1000 ways. I imagine my grandkids are gonna see the photo of my Ma in blackface, and wonder about her. But she was in a minstrel show.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Nobody has ever wanted you to embrace the gay lifestyle. Nobody wants you to fuck or fall in love with another man. Especially not the men.

But your ex friend would have liked you to stop embracing the homophobic lifestyle, I would bet. And change those G.I Joe underoos you still wear for grownup pants. Fag hasn't been a mental disorder for quite a while now.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Nobody has ever wanted you to embrace the gay lifestyle. Nobody wants you to fuck or fall in love with another man. Especially not the men.

But your ex friend would have liked you to stop embracing the homophobic lifestyle, I would bet. And change those G.I Joe underoos you still wear for grownup pants. Fag hasn't been a mental disorder for quite a while now.

Naaah. He's afraid I'll let the cat outta the bag about his unPC youth. For years I couldnt understand how he had so many collisions with his rural Texas community without specifying what the problems were. Junior was the problem!

GI Joe? Not me. I'm more the country gentleman. I scare people cuz I usually carry an axe around.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Read more chapters of the Lawrence book. I do believe I've learned more about Semites and Islam than I learned over 50 years. Lawrence has a clarity missing with most writers.