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Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 14, 2007, 2:51 pm
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and guilty on that score. Thus they
defend themselves against the strong and "the law of the jungle."
Simulating - oneself
Now she loves him and looks ahead with quiet confidence - like a cow.
Alas, what bewitched him was precisely that she seemed utterly
changeable and unfathomable. Of steady weather he found too much in
himself. Wouldn't she do well to simulate her old character? To simulate
a lack of love? Is this not the counsel of - love? Vivat comoedia (Long
live comedy!).
On female chastity
There is something quite amazing and monstrous about the education of
upper-class women. What could be more paradoxical? All the world is
agreed that they are to be brought up as ignorant as possible of erotic
matters, and that one has to imbue their souls with a profound sense of
shame in such matters until the merest suggestion of such things
triggers the most extreme impatience and flight. The "honor" of women
really comes into play only here: what else would one not forgive them?
But here they are supposed to remain ignorant even in their hearts; they
are supposed to have neither eyes nor ears, nor words, nor thoughts for
this - their "evil"; and mere knowledge is considered evil. And then to
be hurled, as by a gruesome lightning bolt, into reality and knowledge,
by marriage - precisely by the man they love and esteem most! To cat
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