![]() ![]() Does naming our dark sides help rob them of power? Is there a point-as in Jekyll and Hyde-when this coping mechanism loses its power? If that point comes for Tattie-bogle, when? The characters Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, made famous by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, speak to the presence of good and evil in all of us, indeed to the drive to distance ourselves from our dark sides by naming them-by making them-"other." At age eight, Jodie conjures the name Tattie-bogle for Mo-Maw's dark side.To what degree do you think a queer boy's survival in a homophobic atmosphere depends on his ability to read body language over spoken word? Does Mungo's ability to find love also depend on it? Don't we all have nervous behaviors and tics that reveal things about us? ![]() Yet Mungo so often misses the meaning in other people's words.
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