Feb 15
when jan morris was writing about her transition and said that “alluring indeed in ancient times, for good or for evil, must have seemed the person who appeared to have defied the decrees of destiny itself, and presented male and female in one….when i was in that transitory halfway condition, perhaps the oddest circumstances a human being can experience, I used sometimes to bathe, all alone and naked, in a mountain lake above my home in wales; and then as I stepped into the cold dark water, high above those empty hills, I used to feel distinctly cult-like myself (though the sheep, as it happens, were my only acolytes).”
