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Annaliese Cassarino Female Torso and Cherry Blossoms © 1999 |
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Annaliese Cassarino Female Torso and Cherry Blossoms © 1999 |
| What decides on to-be or not-to-be of a species on earth? If a species wants to endure in the never ending battle for survival, it has to multiply. The living must struggle for others of their kind to come into life. It is not sufficient to maintain the own life (a task destined to fail on the long run anyhow). And we do our best to bring offspring into life. Are we doing this by reason, firmly decided to secure the survival of our species? No. Usually we do it out of fun, and because we feel pressed to do it. We need to. Men turn their heads for women, women for men. It's hardly to suppress. We need no plan, no purpose to do it. It happens all alone. And we enjoy it, it makes us happy. |
| Once upon a time, long before the formation of our own species, it was decided that two of us had to come together to create new life similar to our own. And in the beginning, this new life is growing in just one of both. For quite some time, it needs protection, until it can live on itself. And it finds this safe place in just one of both. Both spend their halves of the whole, and for a long time they bore their half with them, like a promise. But once they are united, and both long so much to be so, one of the halves stays where it was, and in addition receives the other half, both halves giving the whole. |
| Thus, reproduction claims very distinct acts from two of a species. Only in the beginning, the desire is the same, the longing for the other. But once it comes to activities, the challenge is on only one of them. Because one of them has to invest his half out of himself, has to perform an act, and without that achievement the halves will stay ununited. The other part, however, has only to tempt this act, and wants to do so, feeling urged by instinct. So both of them feel driven in differing ways: One is enticed by the wife, her outer appearance is for him sufficient argument; the other, however, is not enticed by beauty, she is enticed by deeds, by strength, by readiness to seize, to execute, to perform, to do his natural duty. |
| And therefore, since the characters are so dissimilar, one part - the woman - if she appears bare to our eyes is always beautiful, and the other part - the man - mostly ridiculous. |
