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Old Salt card carrying Curmudgeon
found to be exceedingly imperfect.
And the strategem of the gods was crowned with success, but not always.
There have existed at all times some men - a few - who have detected the
deception. They perceive well enough woman's loveliness - more keenly,
indeed, than the others - but they also suspect the real state of
affairs. I call them erotic natures and count myself among them. Men
call them seducers; woman has no name for them - such persons are to her
unnameable. These erotic natures are the truly fortunate ones. They live
more luxuriously than do the very gods, for they regale themselves with
food more delectable than ambrosia, and they drink what is more
delicious than nectar; they eat the most seductive invention of the
gods' most ingenious thought; they are ever eating dainties set for a
bait - ah, incomparable delight, ah, blissful fare - they are ever
eating but the dainties set for a bait; and they are never caught. All
other men greedily seize and devour it, like bumpkins eating their
cabbage, and are caught. Only the erotic nature fully appreciates the
dainties set out for bait - he prizes them infinitely. Woman divines
this, and for that reason there is a secret understanding between him
and her. But he knows also that she is a bait, and that secret he keeps
to himself.
That nothing more marvelous, nothing more delicious, nothing more
seductive than woman can be devised, for that vouch the gods and their
pressing need which heightened their powers of invention; for that
vouches also the fact they risked all and, in shaping her, moved heaven
and earth.
I now forsake the myth. The conception "man" corresponds to his "idea."
I can, therefore, if necessary, think of an individual man as existing.
The idea of woma