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castrato
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| A castrato could play a woman in one opera, and the following week portray the Greek military hero Achilles. I felt that it was especially important after the surprise success of The Hours not to write that book again, like some literary castrato who sings the same song to the delight of the court. The immediate difference between Gallimard falling in love with a transvestite and Sarrasine's attraction to the castrato La Zambinella is obviated by the realization that in both cases anatomy hardly matters: Gallimard and Sarrasine love what they fantasize. |
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