Just when you're being forced to re-evaluate Popeye the Sailor, along comes another biography of Hans Christian Andersen which discusses, among other things, his "ardent" masturbation, obsessive compulsive disorders, and how homosexual tendencies made it into his fairy tales. (My goodness, in retrospect it seems perfect that Danny Kaye played him in a movie...) Via Michael Schaub at Bookslut, slowly destroying all my remaining illusions...
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