The L Word banks on heteroflexibility as well as queer equivocation, through its cultivation of the touristic gaze, a gaze which immersed, identifies with, and distanced, desires.

Addison: Pathfinder, you're making a mistake. Ryder: Maybe. But at least I'm willing to acknowledge it.

O Antony! Begge not your death of vs: / Though now we muſt appeare bloody and cruell, / As by our hands, and this our preſent Acte / You ſee we do: Yet ſee you but our hands, / And this, the bleeding buſineſſe they haue done:

Alexander the Great […] lanced himself in manner of a Star Volant in the Air, leaping out of the East into the West, […]