By Robert Musil
Is a novel whose main character is Ulrich- he without qualities- and the parallel campaign whose meeting place is his cousin’s house. First, the parallel campaign achieves nothing. In fact, at the end, one really can’t be certain what the parallel campaign or the whole novel is all about.
But there are many interesting things, some which question some of the myths we hold regarding sex. For example, Diotima says
Quite often a man can’t make love even when he wants to.
In another place, still continuing with the same line of argument, she says
In contrast with a woman’s constant readiness for sex, a man- well, in a word, a man’s manliest part is easily discouraged.
And ends the discussion by saying, which will leave many a man shaking their heads or reflecting, that
He only feels sexually secure if he doesn’t have to be afraid of a woman being in some way or other spiritually superior, and that’s why men hardly ever have the courage to try a relationship with a woman who’s their equal as a human being.
Thoughts which I find all quite interesting.
I can’t relate to that at all.
Anyway, Merry Christmas, brother. Have yourself some fun.
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Merry Christmas my brother and friend.
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Phew! That last para’s assertion is a challenge to unpick. Perhaps better not to in these woke times (?) – other than in one’s own head, that is.
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Even in these woke times we must unpick the controversial.
Hope you are well Tish. The news coming out of the UK is that the incompetent Johnson has instituted another lockdown while your neighbours have to varying degrees closed their borders.
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You are right. We must keep unpicking. As for Bonkers Borisland – I cannot tell you how demented things are here. Science has been turned on its head once more. Fear and panic mongering to the fore. The Government cannot possibly know that a new mutation is 70% more virulent (i.e. transmissible) without carrying out v. complex experiments that don’t involve PCR tests. According to virologists, there seem to be at least 9,000 known mutations so far, because that’s what viruses do, and none that, without said experiment-based evidence, constitute a ‘strain’. Now we’re being terrorized with a South African version. The behavioural scientists advising the PM are having a field day messing with our minds.
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Pole my friend, I hope this all mess can pass without causing much more stress than if has caused topped of course with the Brexit mess.
Yeah, I saw that too about a new strain being more virulent but there has been no evidence to support it. Crazytown.
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I think we have entered the realms of ‘here be dragons’.
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We sure have.
But for us the living, we must try and maintain some cheer. And in that spirit, I wish you the best for these holidays.
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All the best to you, too, Mak. And thank you for your good wishes. Definitely important to keep up the more hopeful spirits, so I will take your advice on that front and now lock my bad temper in a box and hide it in my allotment shed for the holidays. Maybe the mice will eat it.
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In the allotment there must be a lot to do to take the temper away and pass away the holiday. And am certain lots of fresh air.
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Just got back. Lots of very dank, damp air at the allotment, Mak. We have had masses and masses of rain this month. I almost needed water skis to cross the field just now. But I have added loads of stuff to my compost heaps, chatted to a gardening chum, picked up some good logs to store for next winter, brought home a big squash and some leeks and am altogether less tetchy 🙂 🙂
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Our short rains have been quite short. So its getting hot dusty but better than wet and cold Nairobi.
You my friend, enjoy farming and write us a novel
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Ah the novel. I have one in bits.
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This is the time to join the bits
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I believe you are right.
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Thanks for the dose of reality, Tish. Our media is promoting the hysteria as well. I see people walking by themselves down a suburban street with not a single other person in sight wearing a mask. Or inside a closed up car. Or, my favorite, riding a bike THE WRONG WAY DOWN A STREET WITHOUT A HELMET but by god…they will not get COVID!
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I see people wearing chin masks all over the place and then I have seen others wear double masks. It is all interesting
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All the best to you, Brian. The source info for our most ‘recent’ variant is a very brief presentation from last week’s COG genome event. Just a handul of ‘slides’ by Erik Volz at 2 mins 36. It’s very brief:
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The title of this book suggests a gender bias, not only of each other’s biological differences but neurological differences too – which of course is the big problem. Might I suggest that, after perhaps 12,000 years of male social-domination throughout the World, the responsibility for correcting this bias and establishing a more balanced and harmonious social life generally between the sexes rests more on the male-brain than the female-brain. Wild hopes for a New Year’s resolution perhaps???
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No worries, john. In the new world of “gender” a person with male genitalia can “feel deep down inside” he is really a woman. So he can take over leadership of any previously female-headed organizations as a “more real woman” than a mere woman.
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Strange times these are.
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That such bias has been allowed to perpetuate has required the active participation of both sexes. It’s in the nurturing process & how societies have been structured.
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