Women cannot stand a dialectical redoubling, an intensification of
reason. The awesome redoubling is nothing more than a second thought,
against the first, and simultaneous with it. Woman is one dimensional in
the sense that she can only think the one thing. If she tries to think
the second she begins to lose the first - and her mind snaps. She loses
her life, because her first thought is her life.
By contrast, man finds his sanity in that second thought, which, in a
noble man, becomes his life. He doesn't lose his mind because he has a
firm grip on that second thing - I am of course speaking of reason.
Reason is not unlike a second wind, which sustains, but is not reached
without considerable pain.
Crime
Woman doesn't have a mind for crime. She cannot hold things within,
which would enable her to bear guilt. She doesn't have the ability of
man to be two people at once: one person on the outside, and another,
fully conscious of the duplication, within.
She can certainly lie, but only if she makes herself fully believe in
the lie. Her talent is her ability to transform herself, so that she
believes inwardly, while the man can only do so outwardly.
The upbringing of men
Children are invariably reared by their mother in the early years,
regardless of the sex of the child. As we might expect, early on, the
boy comes to think he is the same as his mother, and therefo
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