Linkage Flashes Past

This week is going to be very light on the blogging due to excessive travel. Here’s stuff I have been saving up while I have been in Ireland.

– In The Guardian Jon Ronson meets the boss of SETI.

– At Lambda Literary Cathy Camper tackles the Was Holmes Gay? question.

– In SF&F Elizabeth Hand explains why Jonathan Clements deserves a Nobel prize (though I think he’d be quite happy with a Hugo nomination – hint).

2 thoughts on “Linkage Flashes Past

  1. It’s interesting that people seem to want Holmes to be gay, or to think that he was “really” gay in some sense. Since Holmes is a fictional character, the only sense in which he could be gay is if it’s on the page. It isn’t. Can two men live together in a flat with seperate bedrooms without being gay? Can two men be close friends without having a physical relationship, or wishing to have a physical relationship?

    It’s left open whether Holmes had physical and/or emotional yearnings, and it’s left open as to whether he gratified them. Certainly Victorian London was a place where he could find companionship of any kind without much difficulty.

    1. Fiction is far more than what is on the page. Everyone who reads a story fills in details, and everyone does it differently. It is what we humans do. I suspect that if I was a gay man and I read a story about two men living together I’d naturally assume that they were gay.

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