mmoa_writes

Isn't it odd to think that four years ago, me and glowering gave a short talk about LGBTQ history month, in the days when we still wore uniform and could get detention for badly done homework? I'm sure I could find the precise date if I cared to trawl through my LJ again. Living as I do at the library, I think the next best thing I could do to commemorate this month, would be to read the entire 'Lesbian and Gay' fiction section. Easy enough...

 I rather liked 'The Well of Loneliness', for instance, even though apprently Virginia Woolf hated it. But then, I'm simplistic like that - I like strong, solid prose. The idea can be as wacky as it likes, but anything written in a style that even remotely hints at the avant-garde usually sends me to sleep*. I am, it seems, a well-educated philistine.

Came across this from the F-word. I quite like the rather disturbing image it portrays, though perhaps the Jaws soundtrack was unintentional.




*I do try. I mean, I read 'The God of Small Things' and 'The Fugitive Pieces' and I absolutely loved them. Perhaps it's the more classical 'modern' writing I have difficulty with. Like I said, I am an utter philistine. I'd be the sort of person who sneered at Jackson Pollock when he first got big, lol...