Which speaks to speaking to things, speaking of speaking to things
Which speaks to speaking to things, speaking of speaking to things
To be fair, it's entirely possible to read Billy Budd and never think about homoeroticism. In fact, for several decades, there wasn't much reason to read it that way. It wasn't until Leslie Fiedler (Love and Death in the American Novel) wrote about the topic that such a thing gained credence. Fiedler later…