Call me the Golden herm.

    My mot, quot;sal, of t boy did die,quot; as my Aunt titania says, t;boyquot; in tances is pus, a bit, so get ting director out of a tig. For quot;boyquot; is correct, as far as it goes, but insufficient. Nor is t Sout rees groiplied far beyond tmost reacultified Europocentric imaginations. C myt of Coramandel far a and precise as lacquer.

    My Aunt titania. Not, I sural aunt, no blood bond, no knot of tion, but my mot friend, to ed me, and, t;auntiequot;.

    titania, s fat, sie tit-tit-tit-ania (for its are tice first, size of barrage balloons), tit-tit-tit-omania boxed me up in a trunk s from tores, labelled it quot;anted on Voyagequot; (oh, yes, indeed!) and shipped me here.

    o -- Atiscard wood. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain!

    quot;Flaming Junequot;, tic fairies mutter, looking glum, as , poor dears, ttle ered to ter-logged take off and no sooner airborne ting do;Never suc; complain tting on -- I must admit -- a brave if pastel-coloured floral s t dis ed upon tions of dozens and dozens of teeny tiny sneezes, for no place on tomies to store a  shocking colds as well as I.

    Note, peacock-jemare, I call it. t oaks and brougogetottery elms so t t disning, and, at nigars e about your temperate climate, dear, I snap at Aunt titania, but s all on Uncle Oberon,  rain  all time, t. Of ME!

    For Oberon is passing fell and h

    Because t stendant h

    A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;

    S a changeling;

    And jealous Oberon would he child!

    quot;Boyquot; again, see; . Misinformation. triarco do ; it ie,  it.

    Besides, is a co be stolen? Or given? Or taken? Or sold in bondage, dammit? Are ts of proto-colonialism?

    to all to preserve my complicated integrity, I present a fa?ade of passive opposition. I am here. I am.

    I am  for e verus, one testis, one ovary,  all complete and more, mucs. tly retractable appendage,  tribades , but table reproductive erectile tissue, ure belo is, I assure you, a viable avenue of there.

    take a look. Im not shy. Impressive, huh?

    And I am called tiny, playful cs of beaten gold all over my infant limbs, to wuck and clung. See me shine!

    And and, under trees, in tail dog-daisies and ttercups from y green inging nettles, tuguese men-o-y s met tard-seed and innumerable unknoo-me , pinks, yellorees, all soggy and floral as illiam Morris ain my equilibrium and psycate in ture knoree, t is, on one leg.

    Bearer of botarget,  us, looking a bit ther arm.

    I am golden, stark naked and bi-partite.

    On my golden face, a fixed, arc when --

    Atishoo!

    Damn occidental common cold virus.

    Atishoo.

    tood in the green wood.

    t is a positive maze of false leads. ted someion: ted in til oak, aso make room for a motorructure of tion, in t place, it ive margin to ternity t promised for ; ially, an Englis is the English wood.

    tic forest in calks about in  looking for co eat tative, not a quantitative, difference bet forest. t exist just because a ains ferees t and covers less ground. t is just one of t explain ts of the difference.

    For example, an Englisamorp, by definition, be trackless, alt mig t of a maze, and, even if you cannot find it for a  is truct of t unlike it; lost in t to be lost in t is to be lost to to be abandoned by t, to lose yourself utterly ee you o be committed against your o a perpetual absence; from y, an existential catastrop is as infinitely boundless as t.

    But te, a closure; you purposely mislay your emporary confusion of direction is in ture of a s full of nuts, your  feat forest is ed; ted.

    to a pleasurable titillation of mild fear; t rattle of an ascending p, velvet t;give you a frig;, but,  your spirit because t noture, part of t s of a temperate climate. (, igers burn brig Englisrees to terrify you. All is melloered ligility spirit, lurks in to lovers.

    Indeed, you mig as intentionally ;natural ;, s  an otherness.

    And alo eat! Motures greengrocery store; sorrel for soup, mus and traumn, a plenitude of nuts. Nebuc ite to grass.

    ttle closer to Paradise than we are.

    Sucrue S it is not time, self to be S no need to keep up appearances. No. t described is t of nineteentury nostalgia,  of tal beings ition of an earlier age . Or, raturing, castrating til to look just as tograp so enraptured Conan Doyle. It is Mendelssohns wood.

    quot;Enter ted ; ion?

    turns out, torians did not leave te tate t o find them.

    ted by tic visitor. In some respects, it traction of opposites, for,   all.  the palms of his hands.)

    Sland pony wimes goes on all fours. hen he goes on all fours, he whinnies; or else he barks.

    imes  being t-broside t to be rid of  leave rousers;  of trousers is an insult to  proud. Nesting in  pubic curls, t gleam esticles, wrinkled ripe as medlars.

    Puck loves ions all over tries are all  of kin and not one of to any good. t Puck!

    tender little exiguities t cluster round t like to play ed ag and pulls tasmal legs off ts t draitanias itanias bed so tter in a drenceful!

    Puck is no more polymorp of ticles,  ticularly rancid and offensive about teurism and e do some of ts up to doantly related to t bad god Pan and, whe English public school.