[Hardy-l] Hardy & T.E.Lawrence

[Tony Fincham]

Thank you for the somewhat predictably response - human sexuality is complex - labels simplify but 
keep us away from the truth - I was not in any way trying to denigrate Lawrence by suggesting that he
preferred men to women for sex - but you have inadvertently focussed on the point I was trying to raise:
because most of Hardy's love poetry is directed towards women, he is labelled as "heterosexual" - I 
was trying to scratch beneath the surface of this presumption!

Tony Fincham.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RONALD KNIGHT 
  To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:45 AM
  Subject: [Hardy-l] Hardy & T.E.Lawrence


  Here we go again!
  "...other known homosexuals with whom Tom associated, such as T.E.Lawrence". What proven evidence has Fincham for labelling Lawrence as such? None of the many who knew him closely have ever made that accusation. Only those who did not know him, particularly those who wished to denigrate him.
  Resulting from his harrowing WW1 experiences he may be termed somewhat masochistic or something similar, but that does not mean homosexual.
  Fincham's thesis seems to have got a "fail" before he has even got started.
  Ronald Knight 


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