McKinley Valentine
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Writer/Researcher 🔶 ABC's Hard Quiz 🔶 The Whippet, a newsletter of science, history, language & weirdness: thewhippet.org 🔶 she/her
Writer/Researcher 🔶 ABC's Hard Quiz 🔶 The Whippet, a newsletter of science, history, language & weirdness: thewhippet.org 🔶 she/her
![wikipedia screenshot: E. M. Forster's novel Maurice is a story of love between two men. The first draft was written in 1913 when homosexuality was illegal in England. Homosexual acts were legalised by the Sexual Offences Act 1967 but Forster still did not publish because "He knew the endless fuss and brouhaha it would [lead] to". The novel was finally published in 1971, a few months after Forster's death.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7hzps55o3whekowcc24ctppl/bafkreihi55bbpbnunq5h3btt76ugz4si54uaszyjw4euw6jz4cz47v757y)
![Amazon review, 2 stars: Though the methodology, when taken at face value, is fairly sound and, generally, informative, [highlight] I find it highly exhausting and, frankly, annoying that Christianity finds it necessary to implant itself and hijack a philosophy and mysticism that is not Christian whatsoever. I blame Jung, [end highlight] and I am not appreciative of it in the slightest bit. For those seeking an authentic truth and teaching in either alchemy or sages' mysticism - this is not it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7hzps55o3whekowcc24ctppl/bafkreiedbhnoyycq5xarfndu2qo72mqt4glawnrbtoj6l54pofpn4oyhli)
