makes me think that the underlying and perhaps to him unknown reason for the creation of this Autobiography is vanity.
The author is extremely vain.
My impression of him is, that while he really suffered the agonies he describes; while he really in the beginning of his career underwent the soul struggles he tells about; yet he is at present extremely proud of the, to him undisputable fact, that he is all of a woman's soul in a body which he believes to be one-third female and thus only two-thirds male.
There is no doubt but that his body shows some female characteristics; especially so his breasts.
He glories in it.
To him, this at least is my impression, to be all woman would be heavenly.
Some years ago he underwent the operation of castration.
He says, and perhaps he believes, that the reason why he underwent the operation was, that he suffered from spermatorrhoea.
My belief is, that, feeling as a woman, desiring to be a woman and wishing to seem as much as possible like a woman to his male paramours, he hated above all the testicles, those insignia of manhood, and had them removed to be more alike to that which he wished to be.
I read through his Autobiography of an Androgyne.
I cannot say that I enjoyed it.
I neither liked the style in which it was written, nor the manner in which, to me, unimportant details were given a
