The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

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W. H. Auden: "The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories."

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Against	Aggressive	Become	Beget
Clubcar	Gnostics	Heart	Hearts
Hence	Hostility	Human	Imagination
Indignity	Left	Life	Limitations
Lives	Manifest	Masculine	Might
Most	Peacocks	Perpetual	Revolt
State	Stories	Swagger	Terms
Themselves	Theological	Think	Toward
Wish	Women

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The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories. - W. H. Auden