LIT LITERATOR - Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 0258-2279 2219-8237 AOSIS LIT-39-1454 10.4102/lit.v39i1.1454 Litera Something of a song for Stephen Gray Swanepoel Charika 1 School of Languages, North-West University, South Africa Corresponding author: Charika Swanepoel, charikaswanepoel@rocketmail.com 16022018 2018 39 1 1454 © 2018. The Authors 2018 Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Your stance and the ferocity of your frown shows that you know, that you’ve always known, exactly who Stephen Gray should truly be. I envy you this surety of self but, of course, that’s only the Italian you. The ‘accident of your birth’, here at home, still ripples on, still doubts itself sometimes, still stumbles, yet shares that same forthrightness. Between local talk, Adamastor, and Shelley, I’ve found you and have made you my own. Though I hate your love of popular politics and complacent academic air, I look at you there, in that photo Giovanni took, and I see my own truth, our truth.

How to cite this article: Swanepoel, C., 2018, ‘Something of a song for Stephen Gray’, Literator 39(1), a1454. https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v39i1.1454