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Not De Beauvoir

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"Not De Beauvoir" The Second Sex Cuts the Floor I’m not De Beauvoir And you’re no Satre Try again tomorrow Wordplay The Second Sex Cuts the Floor It’s a dog-eat-dog-turn-left-kind-of-day Try again tomorrow, the Satre Soul Sisters love Wordplay The World’s a Ghetto The Second Sex Cuts the Floor It’s a dog-eat-dog-turn-left-kind-of-day Soul Sisters love Wordplay (LadyLabyrinth / 2020) for da soul sistas “The Ghetto” / Jestofunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWThlcafSX0 "The Second Sex"/ Simone de Beauvoir https://archive.org/stream/1949SimoneDeBeauvoirTheSecondSex/1949_simone-de-beauvoir-the-second-sex_djvu.txt "Dead Crush" https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/dead_crush_1230545

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Kai Michael Neumann

Date: 4/24/2020 6:51:00 AM

Existence before essence ...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/24/2020 9:19:00 PM

"My life, as I saw it, was to be a transcendence, a progress from step to step, a series of realms to be traversed and left behind one after another, just as a piece of music perfects, completes and leaves behind theme after theme, tempo after tempo, never tired, never sleeping, always aware and always perfect in the present. I had noticed that, coincidental with the experience of awakening, there actually were such steps and realms, and that each time a life stage was coming to an end it was fraught with decay and desire for death." Hesse

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/24/2020 9:17:00 PM

Immanence and Transcendence...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/24/2020 9:17:00 PM

"De Beauvoir uses the concepts of ‘immanence’ and ‘transcendence’ to further explain women’s situation. Immanence is stagnation within a situation, while transcendence is reaching out into the future, through projects that open up freedom. At times these two concepts have been understood as ‘body’ and ‘consciousness’ respectively, but that misconstrues de Beauvoir’s philosophy. We are all embodied consciousnesses: this is the condition for the possibility of our freedom."

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib

Date: 4/20/2020 9:00:00 AM

I like this a lot.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2020 4:27:00 PM

I suspected you would. hmmm may as well educate during Cabin Fever times, but I know you are up to speed and more than likely on the side of de Beauvoir.

Ts Poetry

Date: 4/20/2020 5:46:00 AM

Love it x

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2020 6:26:00 AM

hmmm....you would. ”The king may rule the kingdom, but it’s the queen who moves the board.”