420 Honoré de Balzac (with Carlos Allende)
The History of Literature
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Ijus Balzac, Is There a Gay Character?
Orcarlos agende: Did balzac feel like he wasn't free to be as explicit as he otherwise would have been if he had been writing, let's say, in two thousand and 20? Agende: He couldn't say that these characters were gay, because that would be highly immoral. But then ijus can say, but he seems like he free to leave hints so that he wasn't worried that his readers were going to be outraged. And the formula, the formulasi extremely simple, is simply distress, pain.
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