{In Two Minds [continued (5)]}[12th August 1988]

[Redbook5:271][19880812:1704e]{In Two Minds [continued (5)]}[12th August 1988]

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I think what I am saying* is that the gender split at the earliest levels of the Circles (which should start to look more like the Sistine [Chapel] ceiling at the next level, ie in the next [fiction] book) reflect not so much how the sexes are but what they do.

If I was forced to divide the Circles by gender (and I think I have considered this earlier)** I should probably, and tentatively, draw a line through*** J~ and S~, ie the diagonal which is already there; this, of course, would not alter the sex of +C†I~, S~, or J~, or make them transexual, {but} simply reflect the way they (and their fictional types) are.**** Nor would I expect it to be followed by Individuals – or statistically, necessarily.

*[See last 4 previous entries, [Redbook5:269-273][19880812:1704]{In Two Minds}[12th August 1988]ff]

**[Possibly [Redbook3:141-142][19870408:0040,1218](GENDER AND SEX{:The Archetypes})[8th April 1987]]

***[–] or near – perhaps more central? Or even down the vertical!

(See [[Redbook5:280][19880814:1540#]{Sexual Intercourse (& Dream Nakedness)}[14th August 1988], 280 renumbered ex] 278

[(or just possibly [Redbook5:278][19880814:1130#]Dream Nakedness}[14th August 1988])]

****But their fictional names become interestingly ambiguous! – ie Percy/Sally, Chris, Ariel.

{(– A reader of [2] has already complained that she thinks of Ariel as a female name…. I retaliated with Milton,# and Ariel Sharon.#*)}

#[In Paradise Lost, Ariel is a rebel angel, overcome by the seraph Abdiel in the first day of the War of Heaven. (Wikipedia, ‘Ariel (Angel)’)]

#*[Ariel Sharon was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006. Sharon was a commander in the Israeli Army from its creation in 1948. As a soldier and then an officer, he participated prominently in the 1948 Palestine war, becoming a platoon commander in the Alexandroni Brigade and taking part in many battles, including Operation Bin Nun Alef. He was an instrumental figure in the creation of Unit 101 and the reprisal operations, as well as in the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition, and the Yom-Kippur War of 1973. Yitzak Rabin has called Sharon "the greatest field commander in our history". (Wikipedia)]

{cf VI. [] 32ff}

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