Everyone can read the first 10 pages - The entire book is on line.
The women were 1. thin 2. gray - takes away the physical capital
The men were 1. thick skinned 2. hated the women's cooking - took away man's need for nuture
The women 1. disliked their own children but 2. liked the other woman's children. They swapped and all 6 lived together in the pine wood. Neither mothers nor fathers played much with the children - the mothers did not seem to know how; the fathers peered at them through thick glasses. The children found other playmates in the pine wood. ... "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." This can lead to mishaps.
People came to the house to get advice from the 2 philosopher men. The men said many things including: ... "Knowledge becomes lumber in a week, so get rid of it."
The women had knowledge, too - but they would not share it! "A secret is a weapon and a friend." What happens next? What is the relationship of love & wisdom, wisdom & love. Time & nature.
i am reading the same book, but not sure how to present in class, does anyone know? I'm seeking advice from philosophers out there.
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ReplyDeletepull out any intersting quotes - and put them on the table.
P. 18 - women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more ...
P. 47 - reflection of self in the pond: so beautiful, but with no one to see her ...
more Sunday, Monday - put your quotes here ...
p. 47 Beauty, also, is usefulness. The arts as well as the crafts, the graces as well as the utilities must stand up in the marketplace and be judged by the gombeen men.
ReplyDeletep. 49-50. the long paragraph that starts with "Indeed ..." What a description of thought this is. This description of the thought of a young beautiful girl deposits a sacredness to the girl that disallows anything but respect and reverance towards her. This is the opposite of thinking or treating this girl as the object. She is subject. Is it wisdom or is it love that depicts so tenderly the contours of awareness prior to its being a thought? That awareness was of Pan, Pan the man. p. 53 "Her eyes almost dined on him as she gazed ..."
ReplyDeleteman-woman pages 55-59. mas is a god and a brute.
ReplyDeleteP. 62: "Female children, however, have the particular sanction of nature. They are produced in astonishing excess over males, and may, accordingly, be admitted as dominant to the male; but the well-proven law that
ReplyDeletethe minority shall always control the majority will relieve our minds from a fear which might otherwise become intolerable."
(p.68)"the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know"
ReplyDeleteP. 143: “A man has said Commonsense and a woman has said Happiness are the greatest things in the world. These things are male and female, for Commonsense is Thought and Happiness is Emotion”
ReplyDeleteP. 144: "Man is Thought and woman is Intuition"
P. 145: "The desire of a man shall be Beauty, but he has fashioned a slave in his mind and called it Virtue. The desire of a woman shall be Wisdom, but she has formed a beast in her blood and called it Courage: but the real virtue is courage, and the real courage is liberty, and the real liberty is wisdom, and Wisdom is the son of Thought and Intuition; and his names also are Innocence and Adoration and Happiness."
p. 167 - for about 3 pages: talking, heart, head, words and pride.
ReplyDeletep. 200-202 single parent describes her situation. P 222 the philosopher likes wife's stirabout after all.
ReplyDeletePG. 13-15"You were my husband and you are dead. It is wisdom that has killed you. If you had listened to my wisdom instead of your own you would still be a trouble to me and I would still be happy." "Women are stronger than men, they do not die of wisdom."
ReplyDeletep. 255 love will come radiantly again t live for ever in the human heart, which is eternity.
ReplyDeletep. 262 the Thin Woman said, the things which a boy must learn are not those which are necessary to a girl. It is particularly important that a man should understand how to circumvent women, for this and the capture of food forms the basis of masculine wisdom . . . more ...a woman's terrible day is upon her when she knows that a man loves her, for a man in love submits only to a woman, a partial and individual and temporary submission, but a woman who is loved surrenders more fully to the very god of love himself, and so she becomes a slave and is not alone deprived of her personal liberty, but is even infected in her mental processes by this crafty obsession.
p. 281. Tell me, what is Beauty and what is Strength and what is Ugliness? ... I will tell you that, he replied. "Beauty is Thought and Strength is Love and Ugliness is Generation.
ReplyDeleteAlthough my book isn't the Crock of Gold,reading the beautiful lines from the text makes we want to read the book myself! Sounds like this book will be one of the books I'll be reading by the beach this summer...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great book, or the inner circle did a great job of portraying it to be. I think I'll take it up in the summer as well. Good job guys!
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds more interesting then the book Im reading now which is Gender emotion and the family.....the inner circle did a great job.
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