"the imagination doesn´t have a gender"
Ali Smiths bästa roman The Accidental fick på svenska den förbryllande titeln Jag är allt du har drömt, och nu kommer hennes nya roman Girl Meets Boy, och den kan vara hur bra som helst. Jag har läst ett utdrag, "Heavenly Creatures", som är en bearbetning av en av Ovidius Metamorphos-myter, om Iphis och hur hon förälskade sig i Ianthe (som var namnet på Shelleys äldsta barn):
"She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl's toughness. She had a boy's gentleness. She was as meaty as a girl. She was as graceful as a boy. She was as brave and handsome and rough as a girl. She was as pretty and delicate and dainty as a boy. She turned boys' heads like a girl. She turned girls' heads like a boy. She made love like a boy. She made love like a girl. She was so boyish it was girlish, so girlish it was boyish, she made me want to rove the world writing our names on every tree."
"She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl's toughness. She had a boy's gentleness. She was as meaty as a girl. She was as graceful as a boy. She was as brave and handsome and rough as a girl. She was as pretty and delicate and dainty as a boy. She turned boys' heads like a girl. She turned girls' heads like a boy. She made love like a boy. She made love like a girl. She was so boyish it was girlish, so girlish it was boyish, she made me want to rove the world writing our names on every tree."
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