genderlessness

Eric Mattingly · 01 Dec 2004, 20:28 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: eric_mattingly at hotmail.com (Eric Mattingly)
Date: Wed Dec  1 20:28:59 2004
Subject: (urth) genderlessness
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Ah, but is Dorcas so standard?  The sick, secret joy of incest?  Of having 
become the lover to a child who may be your ancestor?  Of having become the 
father (by way of ressurection) to your lover who is your ancestor?  I think 
that there are gender complexities (the hierogrammates) and others, but they 
are cleverly disguised as common genre conventions.  But, I may be wrong 
too.

No, I haven't read the the book you mentioned.  I'll keep my eyes open, 
however.

eric

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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