Call from Marcus this afternoon.  We talked at length about how horrible, cold and snowy, the winter has been in Spokane,  I filled him in on my late discoveries on the internet about queer animal sex, and masochistic North American, European, and Australian human sex, and we talked about that precious Western Individual Self so burdensome to our compatriots--and identical, for what it's worth, to the homunculus of self-awareness so often addressed and put in its place at Nuclear Family (Bill and Sue Weaver) Parties, oh so long ago.