it’s funny how different scholarly fields can tangle on my timeline—here I can’t help reading ‘“close friends”’ (in scare quotes) as a euphemism for a certain kind of romantic relationship that historians were terrified of talking about for generations...

Thanasis Kinias

it’s funny how different scholarly fields can tangle on my timeline—here I can’t help reading ‘“close friends”’ (in scare quotes) as a euphemism for a certain kind of romantic relationship that historians were terrified of talking about for generations...
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