6/24/2023 0 Comments Will schwalbe booksIn the dining halls, they filled boisterous tables. And I knew a splattering of visual artists, a handful of comparative lit majors, the odd philosopher, and three mathematicians, along with an assortment of other obsessive, quirky characters with whom I’d fallen into conversation in a dining hall line or bonded over the cinnamon toast at Naples Pizza when we should have been studying. I knew absolutely everyone in my major-there were only a few of us who had chosen to get degrees in Latin and Greek, so it would have been Herculean not to. I knew many of the people who styled themselves writers. I knew the theater people, a group that overlapped almost completely with the gays and lesbians, uncloseted and closeted. I was also cordial with most of the lesbians and gays who were still in the closet it was pretty obvious who they were. I was friends with most of the other gays and lesbians this wasn’t difficult because, in the early 1980s, not many of us were out of the closet. By the time I was a junior at college, I’d already met everyone I cared to know.
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