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sheensleeves | 10 years ago

He started his essay w/ the example of a gay person.

If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority.

edit: you're right.

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dharbin|10 years ago

I'm pretty sure, in 1901, gay meant:

keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits <a bird's gay spring song>

bherms|10 years ago

In that time, gay did not mean homosexual, but happy. Twain was saying he was happy and impudent and satirical and delightful, characteristics you wouldn't necessarily expect a slave to have.