10.21.2010

A Note on Hegel, and women and men, courtesy of Rebecca West

From BIRDS FALL DOWN, in which the 18-year-old female protagonist is being lectured on the dialectic:

“The dialectic,” echoed Laura. It was one of those words to which she never troubled to attach a precise meaning. Teleology, oolitic, proportional representation, symbiotic; what they stood for was part of the world, and might once have been bright like the world, but the dust which falls wherever there are males had buried them in its dingy drifts.

Oh, SNAP.

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