Middlesex

embodiment

• Baby pictures of the infant Calliope show a variety of features on the freakish side… it was the arresting, slightly disturbing quality of my face that distracted everyone's attention from the complications below.

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• Did Calliope feel any inkling of her true biological nature? Did she ever, while the Obscure Object passed in the hall, think that what she was feeling…

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self-and-identity

• The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few… Callie herself was tugging on it as she stared down at that word. Monster.

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• A patient's gonadal sex often didn't determine his or her gender identity… Luce was given the opportunity to open the Psychohormonal Unit.

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belonging

• A place designed for a new type of human being, who would inhabit a new world. I couldn't help feeling that that person was me, me and all the others like me.

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• The fog of San Francisco provided cover for hermaphrodites, too… Zora took in strays like me. It was part of her calling.

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