"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton

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"In the winners of cockfights, genetic changes ensure a more colorful appearance in a short period of time. The sub-dominant becomes a dominant phenotype." Axel Buether

Split Moon

"The uncanny feminine cannot be domesticated."

Bourgeois emancipation defends humanity against its fashions. In "The Magic Flute", Sarastro counters the objection that Tamino is a prince with the words: "He is more than that, he is a human being."The bourgeois progress of the 19th century separates women from equality. Hans Mayer refers to Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy "Judith", written in 1840.

Quoted from Hans Mayer, "Outsider"

"The uncanny feminine cannot be domesticated... I have no use for the Judith of the Bible. There, Judith is a widow who lures Holofernes into her net through cunning and cleverness; she is happy when she has his head in her sack... My Judith is paralyzed by her actions... in Judith I depict the actions of a woman, that is, the worst contrast, this wanting and not being able to, this doing, which is not an action after all."

Judith provoked "a withdrawal of the Enlightenment", it is said. Persephone listens to the words of her current favorite lover in a seminar room that smells of mold and old socks. The stench is noticeable with the trustfulness of a young cat. It does not yet know evil. Persephone wonders whether Ned senses a Judith in her.

For two days, Persephone and Ned have existed in a tunnel of self-exhausting ruthlessness. They are ruthless in relation to all other partners. They were simply left behind, stalled, hanged and given up without any veneer of respect. Persephone and Ned are self-exhausting in relation to each other. They shag each other with a merciless intensity, without the act having yet been performed. They are so hot that they bring each other to orgasm only with facial expressions and gestures.

They heat each other up.

The real thing, however, remains the language. When Persephone texts in the cafeteria: I'll turn onto my stomach for you and grant you the view of my split moon at your leisure, Ned reports from the language lab an almost embarrassing moment. Everything has three sides according to Karl Valentin. A positive, a negative and a funny one. This is the funny side of the sexual constant barrage.

Persephome carefully supplies Ned with arousal material. She doesn't give the competition an inch. She has invaded. Now she is building up her fortifications. Ned is worthwhile in every respect. He is a millionaire from birth. His way of moving around blocks this out. But the momentum of wealth (on both sides) gives eroticism a boost. Persephone is a little embarrassed about this.

She indulges her love of silent dialogue in all academic settings. She writes: You are, I am, we are masters of manifestation. We draw from imagination and reality. We build something that is perfect for us. Red roses should rain down on us (Hildegard Knef). For us there is no prêt-a-porter. We don't do it under haute couture. How do you want me, right now? You know I can't resist. Against my will, my hand moves to my cunt. It's a magical process. It exceeds my self-control. I'm sitting here dripping wet in a room with thirty people. The lack of imagination stinks. The intellectual poverty stinks. Even when I imagine you on the toilet, the thread of excitement doesn't break. I'm sorry for coming to you like this. I can't help it right now. And I don't want to either. I think that what I'm experiencing right now will sweeten my evenings in forty years.

Sexuality and Truth

The answer to all imponderables is education. Michel Foucault states this almost at the end of his journey to the sources of the Nile of "Sexuality and Truth" in the fourth volume. He describes the project of Christianity as a post-antique improvement of man in faith and renunciation. Foucault shows that the economization of sexuality, which continues into the execution of the rules, was not triggered by Christianity, but was there beforehand. The apostolic statements are based on milieu agreements in a non-Christian world. At the beginning of the end of a long stretch of understanding, Foucault shows that the Church Fathers copied Stoic principles at the beginning of the Christian era. He scours the regulations of baptism, sin and penance in the community of believers. "The versatility and inconstancy" of man require regulation. Simplification leads to asceticism.

Quotes from Michel Foucault, "The Confessions of the Flesh. Sexuality and Truth", Volume 4, edited by Frédéric Gros

The ascetic brings with him the willingness to go against his nature. If this tendency is dynamized by expectations of optimization, education is the key to success. In the 5th century, "a regulated, reflected and controlled practice of asceticism" spreads. Monasteries provide an architectural framework. The knowledge society takes shape. The first information age begins. In essence, the church, concerned with itself, is an academy and thus also a space center in which ascensions are organized. What is required for you to be allowed to fly?

Three terms are intertwined: chastity - purity of heart - spiritual struggle. The chastity of the body coincides with the chastity of the spirit. Thoughts are not free. Imagination is dangerous.

Fornication

The opposite: fornication; a word that has been around for a long time and still stinks of urinary stones, orphanages and juvenile detention.

Fornication: the word breathes in Persephone. She wants to commit fornication, how is that even possible in a secular society? She currently lives in a city in eastern Germany. Some churches were converted during the GDR era. Are such rooms, which after all fulfilled sacred functions for centuries, now desecrated or can one commit fornication in it?

During the second day of their shared madness, Persephone suggests an abandoned church as the scene of the first coital penetration. She does this via text message to increase the excitement. She imagines Ned reading her offer and the idea triggers something that causes her to add: I want to be moved on something I can consider an altar.

The wording reflects Persephone's wish to be danced, which has already been discussed elsewhere. As a follower, she wants guidance so that she can demonstrate the guide in turn. Topping from the bottom, the hardcore fraction says.

I want to be moved. These four little words are enough for a bilateral experience. They fulfill Ned's wish to get Persephone under control and put a tangible end to her charades. Persephone arouses Ned's desperation, which she has conjured up. He can't feel safe. He must not feel safe. Otherwise he could slack off. He could reduce his efforts instead of doubling them. In short, Persephon challenges Ned like a trainer, to keep him at his limits. But he still slows down. There is something wrong with the charged relationship. Persephone doesn't yet know what it is. But she does sense a certain one-sidedness, like a loss of balance.