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A Plea for Monogamy

by Wilfrid Lay

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§ 83

As a woman’s all cannot be taken at one love episode, except that “all” which is constituted by her strictly egoistic-social property value, it follows that in the true erotic sense, nothing is taken unless possibly as one should chip a piece of marble from a block out of which one was to carve a statue of the Goddess of Love. The fragment of marble chiselled away at the first stroke of the hammer is no part of the statue.

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