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ONE

One time, Jupiter, happy to be idle,

Swept the cosmic mystery aside

And draining another goblet of ambrosia

Teased Juno, who drowsed in bliss beside him:

‘This love of male and female’s a strange business.

Fifty-fifty investment in the madness,

Yet she ends up with nine-tenths of the pleasure.’

Juno’s answer was: ‘A man might think so.

It needs more than a mushroom in your cup

To wake a wisdom that can fathom which

Enjoys the deeper pleasure, man or woman.

It needs the solid knowledge of a soul

Who having lived and loved in woman’s body

Has also lived and loved in the body of man.’

– Ovid, The Metamorphoses