Andrew Denton: ‘The Boy’. What’s it about?
Germaine Greer: The Boy is the male person who is no longer a child, but not yet a man.
AD: Mm-hm. And what… You admire this form very greatly. What is it that you admire?
GG: Well, no, the Boy has a kind of beauty which is not accessible to females or to younger or older men. There is a moment in a boy’s life when he is transcendentally beautiful.
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