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| 2 | 316 | What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and View more quotes about strength">strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realities of a brutal evolution, but now, for the first time, I had begun to suspect that my conception of manhood, so advanced I had thought, did little more than begin to hint at the possible glories of a suppressed, thwarted, tortured reality, a reality genetically dispositional in every cell in a man's body, a reality feared and castigated by a counterbiological culture. |
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| 2 | 313 | Now he spoke of me as though I had not even, as yet, begun to glimpse the meaning of true manhood. |
| 2 | 314 | I was shaken. |
| 2 | 315 | I began to tremble. |
| 2 | 316 | What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realities of a brutal evolution, but now, for the first time, I had begun to suspect that my conception of manhood, so advanced I had thought, did little more than begin to hint at the possible glories of a suppressed, thwarted, tortured reality, a reality genetically dispositional in every cell in a man's body, a reality feared and castigated by a counterbiological culture. |
| 2 | 317 | I came from a world in which eagles cannot fly. |
| 2 | 318 | I put down my head. |
| 2 | 319 | Lions do not well thrive in a country of poisons. |