Sometimes You Want To Say Things, And You're Missing An Idea To Make Them With, And Missing A Word To Make The Idea With. In The Beginning Was The Word. That's How Somebody Tried To Explain It Once. Until Something Is Named, It Doesn't Exist.

-Samuel R. Delany

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Sometimes You Want To Say Things, And

Samuel R. Delany

Sometimes You Want To Say Things, And You're Missing An Idea To Make Them With, And Missing A Word To Make The Idea With. In The Beginning Was The Word. That's How Somebody Tried To Explain It Once. Until Something Is Named, It Doesn't Exist.

Topic

Ideas

Missing

Want

Since I Spent Eighteen Years Of My Life As A Child, And Nine Years Of That Life As A Pretty Sexually Active Gay Child, My Complaint Against The Current Attitudes Is That They Work Mightily To Silence The Voices Of Children First And Secondarily Ignore What Adults Have To Say Who Have Been Through These Situations. One Size Fits All Is Never The Way To Handle Any Situation With A Human Dimension. Many, Many Children-and I Was One Of Them-are Desperate To Establish Some Sort Of Sexual Relation With An Older And Even Adult Figure.

Attitude

Children

Gay