early "gay" cite (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> J----  H.  C----! "The Young and the Digital" is in an "old-book
> depository"?!
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> Some whippersnapper please tell me what's happening!!!!!!!
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> JL

Now now, this old whippersnapper will merely point out that he said he thought _The Young and (the) Evil_ was in longterm shelving, not that the other holdings indicated were to be found there.  But I can where that impression might have arisen.  Of course _The Young and the Digital_ *could* be about youngsters with fingers.

LH

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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>>>> Of course, this is all pretty moot for the history of the lexicon as
>> long as
>>>> the 1933 ex. in HDAS holds up. If not, Grant's line loses its likelihood
>> as
>>>> a sexual reference. I do not have access to the book cited in HDAS: _The
>>>> Young and Evil_, by Charles Ford and Parker Tyler (Paris, 1933). I
>> consulted
>>>> it at the NYPL forty years ago.
>>>>
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>> I thought Yale might have it in their old book depository ("Long Term
>> Shelving"), but the only holdings are:
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>> The Young and the Damned
>> The Young and the Dead
>> The Young and the Digital
>> The Young and the Immortal
>> The Young and the Old
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>> Nice cross-section, but I see no evil.
>>
>> LH
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