Incest!

Happy birthday naiasf!!!!! I hope you have a fabulous day out by that beautiful sea!

And I apologize for putting a birthday wish in a post about incest.:-)

The subject's come up recently and I'm kind of surprised by the emotional reactions to it--to me it seems like incest’s always been a popular Gothic convention and will probably continue to be so. Last night, reading ajhalluk's lj I was so happy to have one incest-related question cleared up. In my freshman year colloquial on Gothic Lit we were talking about Wuthering Heights and I referred to what I assumed was the commonly known possibility that Heathcliff was actually Cathy's brother. The whole class looked at me like I was crazy. What's more the teacher *told* me I was crazy--and this was a teacher I loved. I never mentioned it again-until last night, when ajhalluk said, "... if the informed reader wasn't supposed to assume Heathcliff was Earnshaw's bastard by a Liverpudlian half-breed whore, then colour me orange and call me a carrot."

Needing to tell someone about my vindication I told my roommate, who spent the rest of the night wandering around grumbling about feeling stupid for never thinking of that herself. I assured her the only reason I knew of it when I did (probably in high school) was because MY MOTHER told it to me. I just thought it made perfect sense, despite my class disagreeing.


( I don't know what I'm going to say here, but I know it's the part where I confess I love incest stories. )