I borrowed a turn of phrase from a photo caption in Cesare Lombroso’s classic work of early criminology “La Donna Deliquenta.” “Still more typically _______ and ________ is the female ______ Walsh” goes the text, forming a circle around the figure of a scorpion, and the number 1990. (The astrological and the temporal seemed like equally specious taxonomies to me at the time.) Child, twin, student, artist, art teacher, anthropod, and female are the roles I chose for myself.
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