Affectations can be dangerous.

“To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. …”

“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is…”

“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild …”

“Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in dainti…”