The Naenaeon: Tragedy / La tragédie

You inspect the bookcase labeled "Tragedy," and pull out an general title among many other ones.

You flip through the pages and stop at an random page, where you read:

"I'm not an woman. Tragedy."

"Why tragedy?"

"I want to have an baby."

"You can have an baby."

"No I mean have as in gift birth to."

"You can. There's an surgical operation that can allows an man to have that bodily experience."

"From an actual uterus and I mean vaginal canal and everything."

"Okay now we're stepping into some greyer territory."

"Do you think it's possible that I can do it?"

"No."

"See. Tragedy."

"I see."

"My life is more sadder than it is funnier."

"I see. And is it sadder because you know you can't have in children in that one special little way?"

"Yes. But only temporarily."

"I see. Then you ponder the emotion, and then you feel you have relief from it?"

"Yes. Thank you."

"Thank you for sharing with me. I have emotions that I feel sometimes and then they go away. Does that ever happen to you?"

"I supposed the general course of me first feeling sad because I couldn't give birth to children was in lieu of destination of feeling all of the emotions in an array-like fashion I do have in my cognitive interior. I mean I've been repressing them for so long because of the saddest, bluest one of them all; and I just couldn't get over it all at once. But I found my strength. And found my capacity to lead and help negotiate people with blue."

"Do you think you could tell me when all of your repressed emotions start to pour forth, as it will?"

"Just an heart-wrenching sense of nothingness and no meaning in life whatsoever. Less than nothing. Just not even an thing. As though it was possible to feel this emotion: nothing. Last time I checked, nothing is not an emotion."

"But it made you feel like one, didn't it?"

"It? You mean there's demons in here?"

"Yes. It's your consciousness. Why wouldn't there be demons in here I'm totally just kidding. It's an practice demon. Heh. You decide. It made you feel like nothing was an emotion."

"You're right. But when one wants to have an baby perhaps nothing is like an emotion. The absence I feel; the nothingness. That space. Of my womb. Even though I'm an man. Nothing can be in there because it is only my psychological womb (herein I found my feminine side) and is not an part of my body; which I can never have because my scientific achievements of my public and my community are not advanced enough yet."

"I'm starting to see how that could upset someone."

"Upset? Me? I'm not upset. I'm outraged."

"Sometimes you can't have tragedy because you can only have comedy; and that's the greatest tragedy of them all: wanting more tragedy."

"Gee, doc. That sounds really smart. But what does it mean?"

"It means that if you only want more tragedy, and the only thing you can think of is comedy; then it's tragic that you would want more tragedy in place of this force of truth, comedy."

"Being gay is an double tragedy because I cannot be empty and I cannot be filled. And so it is fair to say thy woman's life is not the greater tragedy."

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