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Of all of the female superheroes, Mystique is the only one whose powers manifest fully and visually on the surface of her body, allowing her to change gender, race, and appearance, and literalizing masquerade.
Some deconstruct or satirize the medium, such as Asco's Instant Mural, 1974, which features Valdez stuck to a wall with broad strips of masking tape, cheekily literalizing the imperative that murals convey "authentic" Chicano self-representation.
You anticipate some revelation when, about halfway through, he has his building up and running: So far, the obsessions, while narrated with humor, have an atmosphere of masturbation and fetish, literalizing the Freudian observation that neurosis recruits others to re-enact the dramas that define us, in this case in a rhapsody of autism.
 
 
 
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