Here’s the punch line: Old King Hamlet was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was gay, and, ultimately, a demonic and ghostly father of lies who convinces young Hamlet to exact imaginary revenge on innocent people. The old king was actually murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting him as a young boy—along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay.
William Alexander, in Rain Taxi, on Hamlet’s Father by Orson Scott Card
I used to feel vaguely guilty, as a science fiction fan, about never having read Ender’s Game. Now I’m a little bit glad I never got to be disappointed by where Card has ended up.
(via @anselm)
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