Gay Man

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    For hym was levere have at his beddes heed,
    Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
    Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
    Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie:
    But al be that he was a philosophre,
    Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
    —Paul De Man (1919–1983)