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Mining the Diaries 15: France 1988

Hotel Tour Eiffel, Rue de la Exposition, Paris, 6th April 1988 Metro from Bosquet – Grenelle to Palais Royal Musée du Louvre, heading for the Louvre, which is what half the visitors to Paris seemed to be doing.  Join a … Continue reading

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Another Ambivalent Aura

Hermaphoditus was the intersex deity of the ancient world.  In one version of the myth, she/he was intersex at birth. Ovid, however, has the nymph Salamacis fall in love with the male Hermaphoditus and wish that they might become one.  … Continue reading

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