The Uninvited

stuck through their combs where they weresaid to implant themselves and grow,giving the impression of horns. As thecockerel had been castrated, the ‘horns’became an obvious symbol of the bird’simpotence. From a physiological point ofview, the implantation seems unlikely.Meanwhile, the whole notion of hornsrepresenting men who have been sexuallybetrayed is also puzzling, because horns,being of a phallic shape, prominent onmales, and often used for fighting, aregenerally associated with potency.These were some of the things thatpassed through my mind when Kaitlin wastelling me the story of her liaison, the factof which eventually led to our parting ofways. When she had finished, shedeclared that it was my ‘impenetrability’