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A syllabus of historic omissions

“A nd you’ve read Patricia Highsmith, right?”

I nodded, but inside the internal panic was setting in faster than the lies I was spouting in this meeting. My third-year university supervisor seemed sceptical of my answer, probably wondering why someone with zero knowledge of queer literature was asking to do a dissertation on it.

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