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To: nolu chan

LoL, how do you keep the spittle from drowning out your keyboard?

This set of insane raving comes from the same kind of mindset which claims Hamilton was queer because he wrote that he loved his best friend. Good thing you are not a prosecutor.


1,916 posted on 12/01/2004 10:06:47 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
[justshutupandfakeit] This set of insane raving comes from the same kind of mindset which claims Hamilton was queer because he wrote that he loved his best friend. Good thing you are not a prosecutor.

There civilized term these days is "gay" as someone from civilized Illinois, of all places, should know.

And if you want to paraphrase what Hamilton wrote, why not just quote it?

The following letter, which will be quoted in pertinent part, was written by Hamilton when he was twenty-two years of age. It was written to his friend Colonel John Laurens, who was a few years older than Hamilton. Laurens was the son of the President of the Continental congress, Henry Laurens, the dating of the letter was made by scholars, based on internal evidence: April, 1779:

Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words to convince you that I love you. I shall only tell you that 'til you bade us Adieu, I hardly knew the value you had taught my heart to set upon you. Indeed, my friend, it was not well done. You know the opinion I entertain of mankind, and how much it is my desire to preserve myself free from particular attachments, and to keep my happiness independent of the caprice of others. You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. But as you have done it,and as we are generally indulgent to those we love, I shall not scruple to pardon the fraud you have committed, on condition that for my sake, if not for your own, you will always continue to merit the partiality, which you have artfully instilled into me.(Pages 192-3)

1,944 posted on 12/01/2004 12:24:27 PM PST by nolu chan
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