Digital Overtone

There is an interesting conversation going on at a historian’s craft on the question of history, historiography, and literature (the latter my own contribution, owing to a certain semantic ambiguity, and because it is the question I always ask). I (not a historian by craft) don’t want to hijack a relevant discussion in her comments with my literary questions (relating only tangentially to the topic at hand), so I’ve posted them here instead and cross-posted a link chez elle.

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The bits hit the virtual fan yesterday when the omgwtf-machine was whipped into a frenzy over the announcement, straight (no pun intended) from the mouth of our dear and glorious leader J.K. Rowling, that Dumbledore, beloved imaginary wizard of the Harry Potter-verse, was, to the author's mind, gay. Fans go wild; the religious right goes, well, apeshit.

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