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“People always know more than I do, but what I know, I know.”

-- Richard Ford

Henry James

Henry James never married, and I take it he did not garner a reputation for being a lady killer. Accordingly there is some robust speculation that he was gay. It helps that he is a literary figure, I guess. A friend of James made this interesting observation: “He seemed to look at women rather as women looked at them. Women looked at women as persons; men looked at them as women. The quality of sex in women, which is their first and chief attraction to most men, was not their chief attraction to James.”

[Source: Peter G. Beidler, editor of his Third Edition of Henry James’s “Turn of the Screw”]

The Natural World

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