ATDTDA (3) The way it happens, 91-96

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mr. Robin wrote:

>It appears that I'm electroniclly transgender. And so it goes.

I suppose the mix-up is the inevitable result of your having read Lot 49 so 
many times. That novel is, if anything, characterized by a rich gender 
confusion: As Oedipa turns on the TV in Echo Courts, this is how Baby Igor 
is introduced: "Onto the screen bloomed the image of a child of 
indeterminate sex." The Tristero assassins who kill poor Niccolò in 'The 
Courier's Tragedy' are described as "effeminate," and Oedipa visits a bar 
called The Greek Way in S.F. where she sees "the members of the third sex, 
the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for." A-and how 
about such character names as Mike Fallopian and Stanley Koteks?
Further confusion may be added by the fact that the chosen partner of your 
most famous namesake was called "Marion" - another boy/girl name. Robin Hood 
and Marion - who was the guy and who the girl? I can never seem to 
remember...

Best,

Tore (a name which, outside Scandinavia, must seem completely indeterminate 
as to gender)

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