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Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it, not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.  \nALEXANDER HERZEN  \nnarcissism: n. excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one ’s physical appearance.  \nConcise Oxford Dictionary  \nNow I am ready to tell how bodies are changed Into different bodies.  \nThe Metamorphoses  \n(TED HUGHES, Tales from Ovid)  \n2006  \nIntroductory  \nThey had driven into town from the castle; and Keith Nearing walked the streets ofMontale, Italy, from car to bar, at dusk, flanked by two twenty-year-old blondes, Lily and Scheherazade …  \nThis is the story of a sexual trauma. He wasn’t at a tender age when it happened to him. He was by any definition an adult; and he consented—he comprehensively consented. Is trauma, then, really the word we want (from Gk “wound”) ? Because his wound, when it came—it didn’t hurt a bit. It was the sensory opposite of torture. She loomed up on him unclothed and unarmed, with her pincers of bliss—her lips, her fingertips. Torture: from L. torquere “to twist.” It was the opposite of torture, yet it twisted. It ruined him for twenty-five years.  \nWhen he was young, people who were stupid, or crazy, were called stupid, or crazy. But now (now he was old) the stupid and the crazy were given special names for what ailed them. And Keith wanted one. He was stupid and crazy too, and he wanted one—a special name for what ailed him.  \nHe noticed that even the kids ’ stuff got special names. And he read about their supposed neuroses and phantom handicaps with the leer of an experienced and by now pretty cynical parent. I recognise that one, he would say to himself: otherwise known as Little Shit Syndrome. And I also recognise that one: otherwise known as Lazy Bastard Disorder. These disorders and syndromes, he was pretty sure, were just excuses for mothers and fathers to dope their children. In America, which was the future, broadly speaking, most household pets (about sixty per cent) were on mood drugs.  \nThinking back, Keith supposed that it would have been nice, ten or twelve years ago, to drug Nat and Gus—as a way of imposing ceasefires in their fratricidal war. And it would be nice, now, to drug Isabel and Chloe—whenever they weaponised their voices with shrieks and screeches (trying to find the limits of the universe), or whenever, with all the freshness of discovery, they said quite unbelievably hurtful things about his appearance. You ’d look a lot better, Daddy, if you grew some more hair. Oh really. Daddy, when you laugh, you look like a mad old tramp. Is that a fact …Keith could imagine it easily enough: the mood-pill option. Come here, girls. Come and try out this lovely new sweet. Yeah, but then you’d have to consult the doctor, and trump up a case against them, and go and queue in the striplit pharmacy in Lead Road …  \nWhat was wrong with him? he wondered. Then one day (in October 2006), when it had stopped snowing and was merely raining, he went out into it, into the criss-cross, into the A to Z—the sodden roadworks, the great dig of London Town. And there were the people. As always, now, he looked from face to face, thinking, Him—1937 . Her—1954 . Them—1949 … Rule number one: the most important thing about you is your date of birth. Which puts you inside history. Rule number two: sooner or later, each human life is a tragedy, sometimes sooner, always later. 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