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Canovas wrote that Cocteau's choice not to change the novel's text over its several editions, but instead to update the text with illustrations, was a recognition by Cocteau that his ideas about gay identity dramatically changed over his lifetime, and that updating the novel to account for
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by having sex with men and watching men have sex with each other. Cocteau never placed his name on the book, but he provided illustrations for some of its editions.
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