Rather than acknowledge the fact of male-centered or male-dominant or nonmale erasing thinking which the universal “he” enacts — magically, in his book, converting all imagined readers and writers into men — it’s magic, rally, how language stokes the imagination, and the imagination language; actually, it’s not magic at all — rather than pushing into language, pushing against it, dancing with it, so that it not only expresses the multiplicity of possible pronouns and genders and worlds but engages the language such that the difficulty, the richness, the loveliness of an author’s thinking might be contained and expressed.
Ross Gay, The Book of Delights, #32 Nota Bene
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