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Antonio is gay!!
So today wasn't the best day ever - I got up late and didn't get to eat more than a panini for lunch and we had to do the idiotic presentations of set design for theatre arts - but it wasn't all bad either. My brain was actually working today in Shakespeare. We started talking about the idea that Antonio in "The Merchant of Venice" is gay. And I started thinking about that, and how homosexual love/acts were very taboo in Shakespeare's time, and it is obvious that Antonio loves Bassanio (he says so himself). And I realized that, if Antonio was in love with Bassanio and that love was taboo and made him an outsider, like Shylock was an outsider, then maybe that was why Antonio hated Shylock so much. Not just because he was a Jew, but because, as a Jew, he was an outcast and he didn't care, he was proud of being a jew and an outcast, and Antonio couldn't act that way. So anyway, I said this to Sam during class and she's like "You should say that OUT LOUD." So I did, and when I did, everyone was like "Oh!" and they started writing it down. It's really funny, I think, when I say something and all the upper classmen theatre majors hurry to write it down. Anyway, that made me feel really smart (which is good to feel every once in a while, even if only for a minute) and Sam was proud which made me happy. Sam is cool, I love her. So for that one minute in my day, I was happy. The rest of the time I was running and working or annoyed (like the USELESS HOUR I spent in band sitting through 6 variations of a song I only play 31 measures in.) But, anyway, I need to get back to work, getting ready for the presentation tomorrow and the midterm the day after that. Gotta go (No more Merchant of Venice!!!!!!!!)
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