i wake up and try the making of americans again. she uses the words queer and singularity a lot. the words had different meanings then. some of the same words changed. then again she was writing for us now, so maybe she was intending layers of meaning past and present and into the future. i read a paragraph to r. and r. wonders how gertrude would read it and we listen to gertrude read on sound cloud and now i think i have to keep on going with the making of americans.