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Tommy: (opening his lunchbox) Oh, yes. Pudding. Chocolate Pudding! I’ve got the coolest mom. Sarah: What did you just say? Tommy: I got some chocolate pudding. You want some? Sarah: Not that. You said something else. Tommy: Oh, yeah. My mom made it for me.  Sarah: You think you’re better than me because you have a female parent? Tommy: Uh? Sarah: My parent A and parent 1 are both males. But do I go around and say that I am superior because I have two male parents and you have only one? Tommy: (blank stare) Sarah: Well, do I? Tommy: Er, I guess not. Sarah: So, why do you have to rub it in my face that I don’t have a female parent? Tommy: You’re not getting any of my pudding. (Gets up to move to another table) Sarah: Oh, Teacher Thistlethwaite! Teacher Thistlethwaite: Thistlethwaite: (walking up to Sarah’s table) What is it, Sarah? Sarah: Tommy said a heterosexist word. Thistlethwaite: Stop right there, Tommy. (Tommy freezes, has a nervous look on his face). Sarah, what did it say? S...

  Equal to a God he seems to me, Or, if it be not blasphemy,  He surpasses all the Gods, too,  For he gets to sit next to you.  And listens to your sweet, sweet laughter,  Which rips all the sense out of me  For nothing is left thereafter,  When I see you, I prattle mindlessly.  But the tongue withers into blight,  From my weak joints my rage drips down,  My ears are jangled with her sound,  As my eyes blacken in the night.  Catull, leisure makes you rave and burn,  Leisure, Catull, is your disease,  Leisure has ruined kings in their turn,  And has destroyed many blessèd cities.

[From the First Book of Heinrich Heine's  Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland.   Nota bene:  Heine gets the year of the Ninety-Five Theses wrong.] But even more than the Devil's mind Martin Luther mistook the mind of the Pope and the Catholic Church. Because of my strict impartiality, I must now take up the cudgel for both, as I did for the devil, against the all too eager man.   Indeed, if one were to ask me in conscience, I would have to admit that the Pope, Leo X, was actually far more reasonable than Luther, and that the latter simply did not grasp the ultimate  raison d'etre  of the Catholic Church. For Luther did not understand that the idea of Christianity, the annihilation of sensuality, contradicts human nature so much that it could never be carried out in its entirety. He had not understood that Catholicism was like, as it were, a Concordat between God and the Devil, i.e. between Spiritualism and Materialism, in which t...

 [written on the Twenty-First of October, 2021]      INT. THE LIVING ROOM OF A FAIRLY LUXURIOUS HOUSE IN GEORGETOWN – NIGHT CHRIS MACNEIL, 41, paces to and fro while a QUEER THEORIST, 32, sits on a sofa. CHRIS MACNEIL Is this going to work?  Will it work?   Please, please, tell me that this will work.  Please! QUEER THEORIST Calm down, Ms. MacNeil. This method has been peer-reviewed by the leading academics in Queer Theory.   Social constructs are no match for Deconstruction. CHRIS MACNEIL Are you sure?  Are you really sure?  I’ve tried everything, you know.  Doctors, psychiatrists, Two-Spirit Shamanism.   Conversion therapy— QUEER THEORIST Oh, please, Ms. MacNeil, you know that conversion therapy is illegal. CHRIS MACNEIL Yes, sure, I am just desperate. QUEER THEORIST Please, sit down, Ms. MacNeil.  Professor Alok will be here shortly.  Now, when they comes, you tell them exactly what you told me, yes? Chris MacNeil ...