![]() This is because Alison had been lying too, since she was four or five. On the borders of all the other photos “Aug 69” is written, but the “69” on the one with Roy is blotted out with a blue magic marker (presumably the same color that Alison colored the background of her illustration with.) Alison narrates that the blotting out is ineffective, and adds that it was typical of the way Bruce “juggled his public appearance and private reality.” As usual, “the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed.”Īlison wonders, over an image of Bruce walking across the road with an oncoming truck approaching, what if Bruce really had seen a snake that day? Alison says snakes look like a phallus, “yet a more ancient and universal symbol of the feminine principle would be hard to come by.” Alison believes that perhaps what’s so unsettling about snakes is this “nonduality.” Similarly, the beginning of Alison’s honesty also coincided with the end of Bruce’s lie. ![]() Alison says she discovered the photo in an envelope that was labeled “Family” in Bruce’s handwriting, along with other shots from the same trip. ![]() Alison notes that Roy looks beautiful in the picture, and wonders why she isn’t more outraged. Alison says the photo looks as if it was taken when she was eight, on a vacation with Bruce to the Jersey Shore while Helen was away on a trip. ![]() In the only two-page single image spread of the book, Alison narrates over what are presumably her own fingers holding a photograph of Roy, the Bechdel family’s yard-work assistant/babysitter, lying on a bed in his underwear. ![]()
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