Now Is the Accepted Time

Amid all the turmoil and the care - the worry, the fever, the anxiety,
The gloomy outlook, fears, forebodings,
The effort to keep up with the rush of supposed necessities, supposed duties,
The effort to catch the flying point of light, to reach the haven of Peace - always in the future -
Amid all, glides in the little word Now.

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women (1908)

THE subject dealt with in this book is one of great, and one may say growing, importance. Whether it is that the present period is one of large increase in the numbers of men and women of an intermediate or mixed temperament, or whether it merely is that it is a period in which more than usual attention happens to be accorded to them, the fact certainly remains that the subject has great actuality and is pressing upon us from all sides. It is recognised that anyhow the number of persons occupying an intermediate position between the two sexes is very great, that they play a considerable part in general society, and that they necessarily present and embody many problems which, both for their own sakes and that of society, demand solution. The literature of the question has in consequence already grown to be very extensive, especially on the Continent, and includes a great quantity of scientific works, medical treatises, literary essays, romances, historical novels, poetry, etc. And it is now generally admitted that some knowledge and enlightened understanding of the subject is greatly needed for the se of certain classes--as, for instance, medical men, teachers, parents, magistrates, judges, and the like.

The Symposium on the Use of Desire  

Friends, let us leave aside any formality

that we craved to protect us from the heat

of finding ourselves in the body of ano-

ther.  This is the useless wisdom: check your

clothing at the door; we are here to know.

We begin with an act of forgetting, resur-

recting the mind of the womb, tethered in

delicious bonds to the blood of the mother:

remember the eternal connection, the shared

contagion that evolves, articulate, the body,

grasping, the air that you breathe, liquidity

This evening I pray you take me.  I do not yet

know who you are, but I have smelled this

spunk before, eagle shit and something

from the sea, the body’s claustrophobia, the

fear of having to remain here.  There is no imper-

fection of your body.  Your eyes move stones. 

You taste like peaches.  At night, as the moon

pulls the sea to shroud our work, let’s hitchhike to

Olympus. I know I’m clumsy, but it’s only the

fear of having to remain, the fear of having at all.

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