was a legendary pillar of mid-century gay literature. Set during World War II, it followed a young soldier named Laurie Odell, wounded at Dunkirk, as he navigated his own identity. The book used Plato's allegory of the Charioteer—the struggle between the dark horse of passion and the white horse of pure, spiritual love—to tell a story of breathtaking tenderness and courage.

The Charioteer is a text obsessed with the weight of history—Plato’s Phaedrus serves as a moral compass for the protagonist, Laurie Odell. By analyzing the digital life of this novel, we uncover how the "digital humanities" interacts with the "queer archive."