5/31: swapping

...the gendered words in Elsie Finnimore Buckley's story of Echo and Narcissus.  I was following the model of Gender Swapped Greek Myths by Jonathan Plackett and Karrie Fransman, a book whose experimental bent I appreciate.  The point isn't to suggest that the gender swapped versions are "better" or are "rectifications" of historical injustices--instead, they are invitations to noticing and thinking about one's own perceptions and reactions.  I definitely felt that Plackett and Fransman's book was a kind of mirror as I read it.  And I felt the mirror effect in a different way when I went through a story word by word and did the swapping myself.