maria full of grace

    The woman . . . condemned as . . . figure or power of lying. . . . He was, he
feared such a castrated woman. . . .
    The woman . . . condemned as . . . figure or power of truth. . . . He was, he
feared such a castrating woman. . . .
    The woman . . . recognized, beyond this double negation, affirmed as the
affirmative, dissimulating, artistic, Dionysiac. . . . He was, he loved such an
affirmative woman.

- spivak on nietzsche in the translator's preface of of Grammatology by derrida

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