“See, I thought from how you sounded, you was from the Netherlands.” He knows what this means. The query takes many forms—“Are you an actor?”; “You remind me of my cousin, do you know him?”; “Anyone ever tell you you look like…”—and he has never known what to say. Because the question she is really asking, without at all knowing she is asking it, without meaning anything in the world except that she detects a linguistic flourish, is Are you a homosexual? He sure is!
