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buggery ([personal profile] buggery) wrote2004-02-01 07:37 pm

Classics of slashiness

While looking for, and failing to find, another book entirely, this morning (The Grey Mane of Morning, incidentally, and if anyone out there in LJland has their own copy handy and could look something up for me, I would love you forever and write you Mor'anh/Hran slash), I came across my dusty, long-neglected paperback edition of Herman Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund.

And I had to wonder -- am I the only one who found the book (Hesse's, though actually Chant's can easily be read that way as well) just drenched in slashiness and general homoerotic subtext?

::pokes at slash goggles:: I think they've grown right into my head...

[identity profile] spykeraven.livejournal.com 2004-02-02 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
And I had to wonder -- am I the only one who found the book (Hesse's, though actually Chant's can easily be read that way as well) just drenched in slashiness and general homoerotic subtext?

No! Me too!

Wow, at last, someone else who read the book!
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[identity profile] buggery.livejournal.com 2004-02-06 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I do know of other people who've read it... but only because it was assigned reading for an academic course, and none of them were exactly fans after having to read it.

At last, other people who see the slash!

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[identity profile] spykeraven.livejournal.com 2004-02-06 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
See the text, you mean. :-)