Re: Road Runner drops the ball on the weekend

[Norman Miller]

the state, which makes man responsible for his wife. One
condemns her as man never is condemned (for only a real sentence is
passed on him, and there the matter ends), not with her receiving a
milder sentence; for in that case not all of her life would be an
illusion, but with the case against her being dismissed and the public,
ie., life, having to defray the costs. One moment, woman is supposed to
be possessed of all possible wiles; the next moment, one laughs at him
whom she deceived, which surely is a contradiction. Even such a case as
that of Potiphar's wife does not preclude the possibility of her having
really been seduced. Thus has woman an enormous possibility, such as no
man has - an enormous possibility; but her reality is in proportion. And
most terrible of all is the magic of illusion in which she feels herself
happy.

Let Plato then thank the gods for having been born a contemporary of
Socrates: I envy him; let him offer thanks for being a Greek: I envy
him; but when he is grateful for having been born a man and not a woman
I join him