LISS/STEPVR Zoyd as athlete, Zoyd as Bottom

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 04:20:40 UTC 2020


I like this take only because it is so twisted.  Trans Zoyd is a a wild new
thought.

David Morris


On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:04 PM peterthooper at juno.com <
peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:

>
> Or could the idea of Zoyd as ex-footballer and trans person be a reference
> to the John Lithgow role, Roberta Muldoon, in the World According to Garp
> movie? Not a lot to pin this on, but it was a good movie. “I cut mine off
> on purpose.” (Or words to that effect)
>
> Ned Bottom the weaver, the precursor of Ned Lud, about to wake and stumble
> about as Queen Frenesi-Titania’s crush with the signs of his asininity
> sprouting from the sides of his head -coterminous, perhaps, with cuckold’s
> horns.
>


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