I have to reread the Divine Comedy. I recently reread La Vita Nuova, which somehow didn't affect me on second reading as strongly as it did the first time when I was 20. Must be the 16-year passage of time.
It's for sure a socially conservative culture for the most part, notwithstandinf that every other pop star seems to be gay, but "Russian homophobia" -- if I said that Wojtek had acquired "Afro-American homophobia" from living in Baltimore, just wonder what the reaction would be. Or of Brain Atkinsky was accused of "Israeli views on homosexuals." Hmm.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Paolo and Francesca, for starters, Inferno, Canto
> 5:138. ("That day we read no more.")
>
> No apologies for Russian homophobia "baiting" -- you
> really have to get over treating any critique of
> your
> adopted homeland and its government as bigotry and
> baiting -- see what happened at the gay right rally
> the other day. I'm not saying that Americans are
> better, so it's not comparative that way. We're both
> in cellar with the Iranians.
>
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