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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you for that
kind introduction.

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My head is a little bit
larger than when I came in.

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And thanks to all of you
for coming out tonight.

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I know what a seductive
mistress television can be.

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So I'm going to read two
screeds from my new book.

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I like to read the
screeds because they

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don't require context.

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Let's see a disclaimer
before I begin because I've

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seen very frightened
faces on some

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of the gentlemen in
the audience when I've

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read this first one recently.

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So I want to--

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yeah-- issue a disclaimer
that the views and opinions

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expressed in the commentaries
in this novel not necessarily

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endorsed by Lydia Millet,
or her affiliates,

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or many subsidiaries.

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So this is the very beginning
of this particular book,

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Magnificence.

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"It was a stricken
love but still love.

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It was the kind of
love that gazed up

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at you from the bare white
flood of your headlights.

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A wide eyed love with a
meekness of grass eaters.

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Soft fur, pink tongue.

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And if he got too close, a
whiff of mulch on the breath.

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This was the love she
cherished for her husband.

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The love had other moments.

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Of course, it did.

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But its everyday
form was vegetarian.

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She suspected it was the love
of most wives for their husbands

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after some time had passed,
not for the newlyweds.

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That was the nature
of the condition.

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But for the season, the
ones who had seniority.

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When she thought
of conjugal love,

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she saw a field of
husbands stretched out

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in front of her, a broad wide
field, possibly a rice paddy.

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They were bent over hoeing.

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Did you hoe rice?

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Well, whatever.

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The way she saw
them, the husbands

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had a Chinese thing going on.

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They toiled like
billions of peasants.

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Technically and historically
in this very moment

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in most of the world it
was the wives who toiled.

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The wives toiled for
their livelihoods,

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for the husbands, and
the little children.

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Sure those were the facts.

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It was the wives
historically and factually

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in that limited historical
factual sense that

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were the beast of burden.

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Even in the richer
places, it was the women

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who shortened their
life expectancy

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by marrying whereas
the husbands lived

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longer than their freewheeling
bachelor counterparts.

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Still, there was something
about the essence of husbands

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that made them seem like sturdy
toilers, husband housebound.

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It might be the
wives who were bound

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to the houses
materially speaking,

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but the husbands
were bound to them.

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This was because of the
narrow focus of most men,

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how they tended to have few
intimates in emotional terms.

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They left the social
bonding to the wives,

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so they were bound to them.

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And she was ready to
tell him all the details

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if that was what he wanted.

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She was prepared to come clean.

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But a toiler could
so easily be hurt.

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The toiler was
chronically exhausted

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from his long days of labor.

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What labor you might ask.

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The labor of being
a man, of course.

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It was hard to be a man.

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The men were all insane
basically due to testosterone.

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You could see it in them
roiling under the surface.

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A few exceptions prove the rule.

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And the smart men were
big enough to admit it.

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For instance, steroids made
you more of a man chemically

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and also not a coincidence
made you insane.

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Should read that
autism was thought

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by scientists to be an
exaggerated form of maleness.

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So there was that.

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The latent madness
and retardation of men

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was compounded by the
fact that most of them

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didn't get to kill
their own prey anymore.

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Stop living things and slay
them in a savage bloodletting.

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The men even when
they didn't know it

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were frustrated by this.

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They were unfit to live
in civilized society.

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Of course, women were also
subject to hormonal madness

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famously so the
estrogen or whatever,

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so-called premenstrual
syndrome, the chemicals that

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in excess made them into
caricatures of women.

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Hysteria, for instance,
as Freud had called it,

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neurosis that time of the month.

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Of course, Freud had
been largely discredited.

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He had been a philosopher
more than a scientist,

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and Americans did not
trust philosophers.

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Far from it, also,
he did cocaine.

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And still no question the
fairer sex was more changeable

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than the unfair one.

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In practice, this meant that
the women's madness sometimes

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receded but with the
men it was constant.

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When it came to
insanity, women were

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indecisive whilst
men never let up.

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Oddly, the chronic
insanity of men

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was often referred
to as stability.

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The men being
permanent sociopaths

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got credit for consistency
whereas the women

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being mere part time neurotics
were typecast as flighty.

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Essentially, the
female bouts of sanity

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were used as weapons
against them.

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Sociopaths versus neurotics.

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It was a non-trivial
distinction since many men took

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the thing a bit too far frankly
becoming serial killers, wife

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beaters, dirty cops, or boy
soldiers, and roving gangs,

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war criminals tyrants,
and demagogues.

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Not so much the women.

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In one sense, though,
she didn't blame the men.

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That would be
blaming the victim.

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They were hobbled by their
repressed rage and Asperger

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syndrome, variations
on which were lavishly

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spread throughout the male
population, but so what?

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Far from blaming them,
she had always loved them,

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loved them for their sad flaws.

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The men were tragic heroes.

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To be a tragic hero, all
that was needed was manhood.

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She loved them.

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Yes, she did.

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Casey was driving her to the
airport, down La Cienega,

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at rush hour.

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There was a comfortable
silence between them.

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Susan gazed out the
window at traffic.

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The traffic was full of men,
most of whom were tragic.

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The tragic men sat in
their cars driving.

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Some played with radio dials.

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Others picked their noses while
staring glassily at nothing,

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in many cases completely unaware
of their tragic identity.

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Women were also
driving, of course,

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her own daughter for one.

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Casey enjoyed driving
and drove with speed

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and a certain
measure of abandon,

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and yet these women, including
Casey who was in a wheelchair,

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were less tragic
per se than the men.

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The women might be unfortunate,
take Casey, for instance.

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But few of them were Ophelia.

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No, when it came
to tragedy, the men

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had slyly cornered the market.

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Driving gave Casey
a feeling of mastery

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she didn't have in
the chair since she

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was higher up when she drove.

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In the driver's seat,
she was on the same plane

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with everyone else.

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The playing field was level.

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She was excited, now drumming
her fingers on the wheel.

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And Susan felt
exhilarated herself.

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Her husband and her
employer both returning

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from the tropics.

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It was a homecoming,
a hero's welcome.

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Though, come to think of it.

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The hero like
tragedy, was unfairly

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readily available to men.

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When she herself
stepped off an airplane,

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no one would ever shriek
enjoy, jump up and down,

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and hurl themselves
into her arms.

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Neither she nor
Casey usually smoked,

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but impulsively they had bummed
Marlboro Reds off a burly biker

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at a bar, a guy covered
in colorful tattoos

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with eagles
feathering his biceps.

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The only reason they
hadn't progressed

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to hard liquor in a
further festive gesture

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was the hour wasn't advanced.

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If Susan drank before sunset,
she tended to nod off.

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Her middle age began to show.

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They would wait, Casey had
said, and have their drinks

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with Hal and T. They would
meet the two men at the airport

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and take them out to celebrate
(Boring dialogue, boring

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dialogue.)

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Anyway, she would tell him
whatever he wanted to know.

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He had the right to such
knowledge, her husband.

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But all in all, it would
be far better for him

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if he never asked.

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Of course, she would never
describe the exact dimensions

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of her affection to him.

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Those microscopic
inclinations were best

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kept secret out
of protectiveness

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for the other more
than anything,

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a secret she kept to herself.

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As everyone guarded
their shameful,

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shrugged in shadings
of instinct,

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no one told the smallest
increments of their feelings

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to their daily beloveds.

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No one revealed the
minute singularities,

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the slack of an ass say
and how it caused disgust.

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The response was involuntary.

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There might be those
on second thought

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who did reveal such
things in times of anger,

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but mostly those
people were not women.

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She would keep them
hurting elements

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to herself, those subtle
insults to a man's self-worth.

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In certain moments,
for instance, his sex

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could seem a forlorn
pugnacious servant,

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a servant that bowed its head
and had a humble comic quality.

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Anyway, you could
pity something.

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Pity it is a brute and
still want to use it,

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a brute part of a half child,
half ape, their handle,

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their use, their eagerness,
the panting hound.

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The metaphor was mixed.

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She knew that.

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Her love for husbands was like--
it was like a love of deer.

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But then, the men themselves
were other animals--

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half apes.

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And finally, their
sexes were dog like.

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Quite the menagerie all
told She condescended

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to the sexes of men,
but it wasn't personal.

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Clearly, they also kind
of send it to hers.

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They had their own opinions
about the sex of a woman,

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and those opinions
were not all positive.

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That much was obvious from
say pornography, which

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almost every man love,
from the purest young boy

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to the jaded defiler.

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In other words, small secrets
were also held against her,

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and she did not
need to know them.

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Pornography she thought,
degradation and debasement.

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A man like to degrade
a woman in pornography.

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It made perfect sense.

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If she were male,
she'd like it too

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because a man might
not know he was tragic,

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but he often suspected it.

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On a subconscious level, a man
suspected himself of pathos.

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A man walked around bearing
that half aware weary load.

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It was more stressful to suspect
than to know for certain women

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were oppressed from the
outside via the patriarchy.

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Girls raped in various
African cultures,

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for instance, then put to
death for their trouble.

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But men were oppressed
from inside their own skin.

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She saw it this way.

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The testosterone was
a constant barrage

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not unlike an
artillery shelling.

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They had doubtless needed
it and say pre-history

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to run around spearing meat,
build-up muscles that impressed

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the breeding age females,
et cetera, much as baboons

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made their loud "wahoo" calls
or sported shocking pink anuses.

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But now that the
men were deprived

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of the endorphins of the
chase and the butchering,

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the hormones were called with
no response, a ceaseless useless

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siege upon the male psyche.

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Naturally, the men held
hostage in bunkers of flesh,

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sought refuge in
pornography and violence.

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It was just self-expression."

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I'll stop for a moment.

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