Journal Entery

Date: October 4, 2007

Entery Number: 22

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 143

I find it interesting how back in the 1950's they called gays flits. Back then the word gay was still probably used in its proper form to mean happy. Actually, before this book I had never really heard of the word flit as used for a homosexual male and neither had my sister. I actually looked up both words in the American Heritage Student Dictionary and flit doesn't say anything about homosexuals but gay does. I wonder if dictionaries really do change with the times and the meanings people give words? Well anyway, there is this guy, Carl Luce and supposibly he is suppose to know every flit in the US but I find it interesting how Holden has thought him almost a flit cause he was always doing flitty things like leaving the can door open and talking to you at the same time. This guy Luce actually says "...you could turn into one practically overnight, if you had all the traits and all" which is quite ironic because he has some of those traits. You never can tell all the time though if someone is gay or not. Most of the time it is quite obvious though. How they walk, talk, act. It is actually kind of creepy.