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== Weekly Chats I. The Woman== | == Weekly Chats I. The Woman== | ||
''''A tout seigneur tout honneur'''' and so it is right that from you | ''''A tout seigneur tout honneur'''' and so it is only right that from you begins the lovable, better half of the human race – So pay attention, sweet readers, because this time my words are directed at you ladies! | ||
'''' | ''''Woman!'''' Who has ever been able to define this creature? Who has ever been able to physiologize her (please excuse the primitive word)? Who has ever been able to answer the thousands of questions about her little heart?... – No one. | ||
A woman is the philosophical stone of science; she is harder to find than it is to square a circle... | A woman is the philosophical stone of science; she is harder to find than it is to square a circle...One will accomplish flight by hot air ballon, but a woman will never be painted, in her true moral sense. | ||
And why? | And why? – Oh, is she a superior creation that us poor blind men cannot understand...or one of those things that is so common that thinking about it exhausts your mind, and then you are left with nothing– | ||
I hurry to tell you, sweet readers, that I support the first hypothesis more than the second. | I hurry to tell you, sweet readers, that I support the first hypothesis more than the second. | ||
And yet you see, I have wanted to study you all, I have wanted to see if | And yet you see, I have wanted to study you all, I have wanted to see if anyone has understood this difficult ''''mystery'''', and oh, it pains me to tell you that my observations were tossed away, my scrutinizing lens fogged up. The more I wrapped myself in the hidden recesses of your souls, the more convinced I was that I had entered a labyrinth I could not get out of. | ||
And is this mystery that surrounds you a virtue or a flaw? | And is this mystery that surrounds you a virtue or a flaw? | ||
Ask a lover who has been betrayed and abandoned – he will tell you it is a flaw, a horrible flaw.– | Ask a lover who has been betrayed and abandoned – he will tell you it is a flaw, a horrible flaw. – | ||
Ask a young man whose sweetheart has just squeezed his hand in love, or has just said, ''''I love you,'''' and he will tell you that this mystery is a divine thing, that it is sacrosanct veil that conceals woman's divinity like the translucent veil hides the angelic beauty of Mohammed's ''''Houri.'''' | Ask a young man whose sweetheart has just squeezed his hand in love, or has just said, ''''I love you,'''' and he will tell you that this mystery is a divine thing, that it is sacrosanct veil that conceals woman's divinity like the translucent veil hides the angelic beauty of Mohammed's ''''Houri.'''' | ||
Go pick whoever is right among the two: the scornful | Go pick whoever is right among the two: the scornful skeptic or the impassioned flatterer! – I would put you at my feet, sweet readers, and you | ||