Subtexts! What subtext!? In one of the later Chalet School Books,
Nancy Wilmot (acting head-teacher) starts crying in front of the
pupils when her closest friend and room-mate Kathy Ferrars falls
ill...and I always had a crush on Tom.
Farah
On Fri, 16 May 1997 17:09:14 -0400 Nalo Hopkinson wrote:
>
> NH: :) Yes, it would probably be a scream to re-read them now,
with an
> adult's eyes...
>
> -nalo
>
> On Fri, 16 May 1997, Nicola Griffith wrote:
>
> > Nalo, I know what you mean about those English schoolgirl
books. I devoured
> > Angela Brazil books (and the rest of that genre)...but not until I
was an
> > adult. Fabulous lesbian subtext.
> >
> > Nicola
> >
>
> [So I tell my brother about being in the sf bookstores &
everywhere
> the covers show bronze, blue and gold-skinned aliens and white
humans.
> "What is that about," I ask him, "that the people of colour are all
> aliens?" And he says wryly, "Maybe they're phasing us in."]
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