Pentecost
and
Queer Theory

“Stuff comes up,
weird doors open,
people fall into things.”
— David Sedaris,
baccalaureate address
at Princeton on Sunday,
June 4, 2006,
the Feast of Pentecost

“The truth is that man’s capacity for symbol-mongering in general and language in particular is so intimately part and parcel of his being human, of his perceiving and knowing, of his very consciousness itself, that it is all but impossible for him to focus on the magic prism through which he sees everything else.”

— Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Girox, 1975, page 29.