RANSVESTIA

Betty turned and walked back toward the building as I turned and headed for home as I thought. Moxtone's job paranoia was my key. I felt my brain hard at work under my wig examining Betty's information and considering the applications.

I passed a building under construction and one of the workers eyed me and made a rather suggestive observation about my buttocks. I stopped, looked at him and smiled. He smiled back and I made a highly specialized hand gesture I had learned from my uncle in the Merchant Marines. I left the hard hat gaping in the gathering plaster dust.

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The next day I was back at work as Greg and I caught my first glimpse of Mr. Moxtone. I fabricated an errand which required my visiting the land of the executives. Once on the fifty-eighth floor I walk- ed about trying not to look as if I was loitering with any fixed purpose.

I ended up stationing myself behind a water cooler which afforded me a good view of account executive Moxtone's office. My first sight of Moxtone was through the glass water bottle of the cooler. It was a bloated, distended Moxtone who stepped out of the office. Through the glass and water I could see two nervous, watery blue eyes reflective of a near total lack of self-confidence. I moved my head to observe him without the impairment of the bottle. He didn't look all that much different. Those wide, worried eyes looking about, looking for anything hostile and finding it wherever they looked. My mental image of a paranoid rabbit returned to me as I looked at the man who had pirated my work.

Shakespeare crept back into my consciousness. I looked at this pallid young man who looked to me to be one of those people who never find clothes that fit them properly and I saw a new embodiment of Macbeth. A man who let pushy Lady Betty talk him into bumping off King Me with my own sword. "Sleep no more! Schyler Moxtone does murder sleep."

In looking for one word to describe Moxtone it's odd that I come up with the term effeminate. Effeminate in its derogatory meaning; the old, pre-liberation dictionary meaning of effeminacy. Effeminancy as in unmanly. Unmanly as in the absence of that which is manly. Defin- ing womanly in the negative; not being manly. Effeminate isn't even