Would it be accurate to say you upon a hermaphroditic narrator in a quest to find the ultimately flexible point of view? I don think I stumbled on it. I did read an actual memoir of a 19th century hermaphrodite, written by Michel Foucault, and that did pique my interest in someone who has been both sexes and might have more knowledge about both sides of the divide, so it began as specific curiosity about a person of that kind. And then, of course, it did dovetail with a novelist basic concern, which is to know as much as possible about both sexes, so a hermaphrodite was, in a sense, the ultimate narrator..I had no idea that something like this would have ever happened to me. It was like, almost, winning the Mega Ball lottery.

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