Note 20 — Part Two: How the Author Came to Be a Female-Impersonator

Anglo-Saxon leaders of thought have hitherto been of the opinion that the domain of sex is “terra interdicta,” just as those of Roger Bacon’s time (priests and monks exclusively) would have believed it sacrilege to use a telescope or microscope—“to see what God meant man should never see.” Roger, although having invented these instruments, did not dare tell his generation because the leaders of thought would have burnt him alive for invading terra interdicta.