Let us reason together, my dear friends; let us walk together through perfectly manicured parks, replete with fountains trembling with light; with gentle breezes whispering against our skins like playful lovers; through airy esplanades and silent courtyards, discoursing the while. For I have much to speak of, my dear friends. Why are men and women in perpetual tension, eternal conflict and general travail? Many of our curses are intended to punish malicious or undesired behavior by lovers or spouses. Of these, a substantial number are curses placed by angry, lovelorn and abused ladies against errant males. How deep and dark is their well-spring of hatred; how dread and fabled the bitterness of their eternal enmity! I am continually reminded of the peerless Song of Solomon, ageless expression of the feminine Soul; at once yearning and cruel, cloying and severe. Like the Temple of Solomon itself, indeed – replete with the pillars of Severity and Indulgence, express handiwork of Hiram Abiff, master craftsman of fabled Phoenicia.
But this is the essence of our work: to curse and hex, fired and inspired by the anger and emotion of our clients. Yet nowhere is the anger more intense than when the female soul is scarred by masculine calumny. My thought is that the female is the deeper, not weaker vessel: and that this primordial depth explains the withering, all-pervasive passion of Woman for Love or Hate. As Nietzsche opined, the same emotions in men and women are, however, different in tempo – and so it is that men and women never fail to misunderstand one another. But there is more to it than mere tempo – there is a gulf in sheer scale between the emotions of the sexes. What are trickling rivulets in men are vast Amazonian tides in women; a gentle wave in a man is a vast tsunami in a woman; a brief shower in man is a torrential deluge in Woman.
So we have reasoned, together, my friends. Happy Hexing!
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