L'histoire de C

Some years ago I disturbed some other gay men in an online discussion by telling them that if I could choose one person with whom to be stranded on a desert island, it would be Noam Chomsky. “He’s a really intense disputant,” one guy, a linguist who knew the Great Man professionally, warned me. “Ecstasy!” I replied. It was expected, I suppose, that everyone would name a porn star or