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Book Club: Discuss/find out about a Classic Tale Set in Wyoming: The Virginian
Front-Ranger:
We can restart this discussion for those who have just picked up The Virginian to read recently!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on December 21, 2007, 12:00:52 am ---A friend of mine called me tonite and recited a passage from memory from page 15 of the book, where the narrator first sites the Virginian.
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Let me guess. That would be our Off-line Chuck, who has quoted it to me on more than one occasion and mentioned the obvious homoeroticism in the passage.
Monika:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 15, 2011, 02:16:35 pm ---Let me guess. That would be our Off-line Chuck, who has quoted it to me on more than one occasion and mentioned the obvious homoeroticism in the passage.
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I had the exact same thought when I read the passage. It read as though he was checking him out and liking what he saw.
Here is the cover of my copy
Front-Ranger:
You would be right, Jeff and Monika. ;D
The Virginian was published in 1902, and I'm rereading a lot of turn-of-the-century literature in a new light, comparing it to our own turn of the century and finding many parallels. For instance, writers were chafing against the tight leash of Victorianism and were questioning society's strictures, including that against a man loving another man. What better place to explore an open perspective than the wide open spaces of Wyoming?
Yet, the Virginian was a Southern gentleman with a strict code of honour. But he was also "Nature's nobleman" imbued with the grace and beauty of any sleek, natural animal in the wild. A pleasing combination!!
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm beginning to wish I had obtained a paperback copy of this book to take with me on my ramble that begins this Sunday, instead of a copy of The Devil in the White City. Unfortunately, I really don't have time to hunt for one, now. :(
Maybe my next ramble.
(Psst. "The Virgin Queen" was Elizabeth I. Queen Victoria had--what?--a dozen children? No virgin was she!)
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