Hermaphrodite
Social archetype
The jacuzzi nymph: lycra shed, limbs unfurled, mirrors everywhere. Less a person than a species of self-regarding spa life, commonly attended by an Alph.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…to be comprised of the interactions and relations between certain definably distinct types. Our first exhibit, the nymph Hermaphrodite, having been massaged by the gods, and quite done with posing and preening and strutting and stretching before the ubiquity of mirrors, languorously unfurls a set of svelte limbs, and rises and pads like the ‘pard towards the spa’s metamorphosis suite, there divesting self of lycra impediments and pretensions to modesty.…