Me As Marvy, a footnote

[Steelhead]

During my nightly struggle with Monsieur Foucault, aided by a holiday
splash of Glen Livet, here is a passage from The History of Sexuality that
may relate to the penultimate predicament of Maj. D Marvy, and his
historiographer:

"Someone will say to me: this is to indulge in a historicism more hasty
than radical; it is to evade the biologically solid existence of sexual
functions, for the sake of phenomena that, though perhaps variable, are
fragile, secondary, and, above all, superficial; it is to speak of
sexuality as if the genitals did not exist...'For you there remain only
groundless effects, ramifications without roots, a sexuality without
genitalia. Castration, all over again."

That about sums it up, don't it?

Steely