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It’s from a really funny story by Marechera (once again, considered not at all so funny from the narrow perspective of contemporary identity politics, but nonetheless really funny.)
It’s about the protagonist’s (actually, Marechera’s) inability to “cross the threshold” into sexual adulthood, because he didn’t know what his identity was.
So, he becomes in turn (I’m not sure if I have the correct order) somehow who goes into a coma and wakes up to find shit spread everywhere in his house, including on the ceiling. He also becomes a European aristocratic gentleman, waking up to find he’s painted his body with whitewash. In the other instance, he’s an evil father Christmas, sending Christmas cards with strange messages or insults.
This all happens as a backdrop to the idea of fusing in unity with his feminine side, in the river.
STAY SANE AND SAVAGE Gender activism, intellectual shamanism