Antinomian women: that’s where it’s at. The women who will save me. The women who will yank me up from the mire. I only have to think of them to be … lifted up, somewhat. Rescued, a little. I don’t feel quite so alone.
Women are, like, programmed to be agreeable. To be kind and agreeable and soft and mild. And if you’re antinomian, you’re a threat. You’re a witch. You’re an outcast.
And women are bitches, for all heir agreeableness. They’d be the first to denounce you, if you’re a threat. To have you burnt you at the stake.
You know how it is, philosopher – or perhaps you don’t. So much easier for you.
Is that what you thought Livia was: an antinomian woman?
No question if that. Livia was thoroughly antinomian. Livia loved being antinomian. I’m sick of women, she used to say.
But she wasn’t sick of you.
A whole series of studies of my antinomian women. Perhaps that will be my life’s work.
Antinomian women are so much more interesting than antinomian men. They’ve done so much more to free themselves from all that feminine agreeableness. That desire to please.
I think Livia’s the most antinomian woman of all.
Its your job to write about her. It takes an antinomian woman to write on antinomian women.
I think you’ll find that’s your job, Shiva. You and your idiotbuch.
Livia was susceptible. Livia had crushes. Remember Herwig.
Who could forget Herwig?
She was part of that think tank, wasn’t she? Not sure what she was doing in Tyneford. Not sure how Livia met her?
Of course the right are so seductive now. The right has this forbidden allure. Aren’t we all just sick of the left? And leftish women. All that censorship and cancellation and self-righteousness … and calling everyone fascist. All the things we’re not supposed to think. All these forbidden ideas.
So antinomian women are all right wing now?
Think of Herwig.
Herwig was pure antinomianism. She reveled in being disliked by everyone. I mean, she was fierce. She might as well have carried a whip.
You’re just waiting for your Leni Riesensenthal. Sure I am …
Why are you so credulous? Why do you have to justify everything Livia did? Why do you have to give meaning to it all? Livia was a bitch who like to play practical jokes. She enjoyed our innocence because it made us gullible. And she loved our stupidity because it let her lead us up the garden path. That’s it.
Work in Progress 