Okay, so I've been driving myself batty trying to come up with a research topic for Heart of Darkness that wasn't "COLONIALISM WAS BAD!!1!" because LAWD, wouldn't that bore me and my teacher to tears, it's THAT overdone. That is, I was driving myself batty until I hit upon the fact that I could finally put to good use all of the energy I expended in Fern's class last year being a smart-arse and harping on how homoerotically charged that book is. So now I sort of have a topic, except that I can't seem to reword it in a way that isn't, "Joseph Conrad was all about teh ghei in Victorian England! Le gasp!"

The words "repression of sexuality" sound kind of appropriate, but I fear that goes kind of broad. Then again, I don't know how receptive my passive-agressive teacher is to "teh ghei," so I suppose broad might be a good place to begin? Indecision!

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