This is Shakespeare's 116th sonnet. You have probably heard it at a straight couple's wedding. They were, and are, probably a lovely couple.pic.twitter.com/Uf6Hutflcd
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But the sonnet is a man, loving another man, imagining the impossibility of marriage w him, and the engine of the world turned against them.
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Throughout, the sonnet echoes the phrasing of the marriage rite, turning at it like troublesome grit in a mollusk: an impediment.
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a straight person, untroubled, will read the couplet as meaning "If this is false, I never wrote, and no [one] [has] ever loved."
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but it is a sad dangling modifier, bc it also might be: "if this is true, I never wrote, and never loved a man."pic.twitter.com/eL1hSH3pQF
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Shakespeare made the most powerful expression of love recorded in English, then dares you to say his love for another man isn't real.
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It is astonishing, and sly, and defiant, and so so sad, and beautiful.
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please stop leaking my nudes
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