Here's another passage from
Eucalyptus, which reminded me of a story from Ovid's
Metamorphoses.
So there he is in Bathurst, our traveller from Britain.
It is at Bathurst, or rather on the outskirts, that the story develops a sudden twist. On the second day he was wandering along the river when he came across two brown snakes - ne shedding its skin. He killed the wrong one, and was turned into a woman. That's apparently what happened.
When last heard of he was living in Seattle - or was it San Francisco? - as a woman.
