.....Lets have a game, sort of ! Take a paper belt  figure 1 : Adam It is a two faces ribbon. We called it "Adam" You can see it on the drawing, one face outside is dark blue and the one inside is pale blue !   You will obtain twice the same figure and both of them have kept their characteristics : having two faces. Two clones ! Now sew the two pieces of belt to gather again and this time cut it across the narrow dimension and make it a long ribbon with an old scare  |
Take the strip of paper. Make two half twists in one end. Tape the ends together. You now have a
Moebius strip !
but the structure of you paper has changed because of the two half swings !
Now, it only has one side!
The same paper, with the same scare !
To verify this, take your marker and put some colour along one side of your ribbon. You will see that by colouring one side till the end, you have travelled the both faces !
We will present now the Moebius band as below, with a fold. It is the same, but easier to manipulate !
Cut again along the old scare you made before, that have made the two clones.
you obtain this:
Your belt is twice longer than before !
But the structure of the paper
has changed again, the cutting made it two-faces again !Verify it !
Strange, no ?
Now sew it back again as a Moebius band
One face again
, with the bloody scare !This time, cut it anywhere else but not in the middle.
On the side by example !
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Just have a little rest and a little dream !
Just Imagine that figure 1 is the first human being : Adam !
He is bored to be alone !
He asked God to make himself a company,
Some one on his side !
God was young at this time so he was beginning his job, may be he tried to do for the best !
So God first cut Adam
It makes nothing interesting, because both of them pretended to be the same : It's me, no I am "me" !
Adam sew his body in one piece again but as he is furious, he makes two half swing before doing it.
Adam is sulky !
God tried again, something a little bit different because of the two half swings !
Cutting again:
Still no company !
Sewing back again !
After a time, God tried something else. A new cut , not in the middle but along the side !
Surprise ! What happened ?
Two different sort of human beings !
Here is the Sexuation !
They happen to be sexually different !
One had kept the "one-face" structure (the red) and the other was "two-faces" (the blue).
(After the cutting on the side, a memory of the Moebius band is kept in the red part of the ribbon)
As they were interlaced for ever, Adam called her "Ever" and after a time "Eve", it was shorter !Together, they had lots of little ribbons...
And the French Catholics make a big mistake on thinking that Eve came from Adam's rib (La Côte d'Adam). She came in reality from Adam's ribbon, cut on the side (Le côté) !
An illiterate person, is somebody who cannot support that something can be at the same time (globally) one side and its opposite (locally) two faces.
That's what the Moebius band is,
(You must verify again !)
An illiterate man cannot imagine that to be a complete man, he must accept his share of femininity
An illiterate woman cannot imagine that to be a complete woman she must accept her share of femininity too.
But, femininity, men do not want it and women neither
However, there is no male referent (in French, "Il n'y a pas de réfèrent masculin")
Because as I said somewhere else, to be capable of reading or writing, one must be capable of reading or writing himself . (I'm really not sure of my English here !)
One who cannot read himself is one who never made the choice to be "sexuated".
"Sexué" in French means to have made oneself an inscription in the Symbolic Book of Sexuation. The choice is not between being "man" and "woman", but between being "sexuated" or "not sexuated".
Till you stay "not sexuated", sure, you can't read nor write !
In ancient times, initiation rites existed to facilitate this transition. Unfortunately, they no longer apply today !
We only have nowadays, football and TV. It's no help !
Charley Supper
(If anyone is ok to send me correction for my bad English, he must have no hesitation ! -> Me )
Any how, I would be pleased to know how to translate the French word "sexué" in English !
Thanks in advance
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