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Obsessed people cannot feel surprised by their obsession of course, that is one of their symptoms.
Quick as a flash Aeneas sprang up before my inner eye, and Cassandra had known him. Merely known him? What was there about him that might have touched her more deeply? Consideration, coupled with strength? So, I was transferring a contemporary ideal to a mythological figure who cannot possibly have been that kind of person? Of course. What else?
What is proved by the fact, authenticated though it seems, that women led the early clans who lived by agriculture; that the children they brought into the world belonged to them; that they continued to determine the inherited succession even in later, highly organized kingdoms; that they were the originators of all cults, of taboo and fetish, dance, song, and many early crafts? Doesn’t this harking back to an irretrievable ancient past reveal more clearly than anything else the desperate plight in which women see themselves today? If your first glimpse of the Minoan paintings (of their reconstructions) is a joyful shock, strange to say a shock of recognition: so the Elysian Fields do exist, you knew it all along – nevertheless, they do not lose their enchantment when you learn something more of the circumstances that produced them.
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