Word: queerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right Reverend Chase spoke today at the Liberal Club, and I thought that after all, queer things do happen in New England and are bound to happen as long as religion intends to wear the gown of the judge and hold the club...
This is all a mistake. Reall, you know, I am not the Vagabond, No, he is living up to his name by roaming through the rainy region of Boston. Brockton, Brighton, and Brookline, chasing--not a burglar--but an idea. When last seen he had queer instrument of a green color under one arm with which he said he hoped to bag the idea. Imagine searching Boston for an idea. I told him he was an optimist...
This operation is not castration. In that the procreative testes are cut off entirely. Nothing remains to create the sex hormones. So the individual, the eunuch, grows into a being that lacks the male secondary characteristics. Queer pads of fat develop. His hips enlarge. So too his breasts. His voice becomes a squeaky falsetto; his facial hair missing or very scant. His character is cold, emotionless, qualmless; his intelligence calculating, keen, subtle. He is not a man. He is not a woman. He is an intermediate animal...
What Picassos, Rousseaus, Matisses will crown the next decade? None of the critics who choked down their giggles as they studied the pictures of potentially immortal Independents could very well say. There were too many queer ones, new ones, sad ones, naughty ones, for a measured judgment. There was, for instance, a picture by a Russian, one David Burliul, in which he visualized the vibrations of modern city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains...
Back at Ann Arbor many continued to feel queer. They became nauseated. Maybe nervous indigestion. They began to lose their appetites. Boardinghouse "grub." And when diarrhea and fever came on they grew worried. However, in all but four men these symptoms passed quickly. In two, three weeks the eyelids of these four became swollen. Every time they moved their eyes their eyeballs ached. Their muscles ached all over. High time to consult a doctor...