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“…Guido found himself felling an inevitable sorrow: he could never really merge with Tonio and become part of that beauty himself, forever.”

“Darkness, darkness, he was whispering almost affectionately. You make me feel invisible. You make me feel that therefore I’m not a man nor a woman nor a eunuch and that I am simply alive.”

this shit is actually crazy

“…I am neither man nor woman and it makes no difference whom I lie with, and so I turn myself into carrion.”

“…Tonio found himself suddenly fascinated by the prospect of seeing this boy transformed into a girl. He thought of the stays of the corset closing around Domenico’s waist and it actually made him blush so that he lost track of what Giovanni was saying to him.”

cry to heaven becomes a gender realization novel. or maybe it was all along? (it definitely was)

“Make up your mind, Tonio, that you are a man…behave as if it were absolutely true and all else will then fall into place.”

“Make up your mind that you are a man, and that is what you will be, and damn him who says otherwise.”