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Who is allowed to make mistakes? Who is allowed to transgress? The answers to those questions, especially when they are posed in fiction, point to whom we understand to be human.
Louis Muñoz
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“Of course you sing different songs than we did, you have a different president, you dress in different fashions. I knew these things would change. But I would have thought feelings were feelings and always the same, and it turns out they are as changeable as popular songs. Maybe that is why the songs change,” Russell said. “Each generation needs its own songs, because each generation has a different heart.”
Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier

Jackson Marsh
“I assume you are referring to my use of language which, when I am worried or not concentrating, slips back to where it was before I began using words and phrases from books. I do this with care, however, because once, while talking to my grandmother, I quoted directly from Edgar Allan Poe, and she took a nasty turn.”
Jackson Marsh, Finding a Way

“But even as he clung to Carol, even as he swore to himself he loved her, Caleb pursued a summer job in Chicago. Cities, he knew, were the place to meet other men like him. Even in his own mind he couldn’t bring himself to put it more clearly than that.”
Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier

Jackson Marsh
“Always denied, never expressed, but impossible to ignore, the thought he was different to normal men plagued his mind when he allowed it to, and although he kept the thought as deeply covered as he could, it rose to the surface in moments such as the one that had just passed.”
Jackson Marsh, Finding a Way

“As with so many of my books, The Sleeping Soldier grew from an observation in George Chauncey’s Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Chauncey notes that when historians discuss passionate male friendship in 19th century America, they often “mistake the fact that men who passionately and physically expressed their love for other men were considered normal for their having been considered heterosexual, as if it were not the very inconsistency of their emotional lives with contemporary models of heterosexuality that made them seem curious to historians in the first place.”
Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier

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