title:Girlfriend? ver.1.0e
by Taro Kimura
1996


HAMLET
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Ham. Are you fair?
Oph. What means your lordship?
Ham. That if you be honest and fair, your
honesty should admit no discourse to your
beauty.
Oph. Could beauty, my lord, have better
commerce than with honesty?
Ham. Ay, truly; for the power of beauty
will sooner transform honesty from what it is
to a bawd than the force of honesty can trans-
late beauty into his likeness. This was some-
time a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.
I did love you once.
Oph. Indeed, my lord, you made me believe
so.
Ham. You should not have believed me, for
virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we
shall relish of it. I loved you not.
Oph. I was the more deceived.
Ham. Get thee to a nunnery; why wouldst
thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself in-
different honest, but yet I could accuse me of
such things that it were better my mother
had not borne me. I am very proud, re-
vengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my
beck than I have thoughts to put them in, im-
agination to give them shape, or time to act
them in. What should such fellows as I do
crawling between heaven and earth? We
are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go
thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?
Oph. At home, my lord.
Ham. Let the doors be shut upon him, that
he may play the fool nowhere but its own
house. Farewell!
Oph. O, help him, you sweet heavens!
Ham. If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this
plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as
ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape
calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Fare-
well! Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry
a fool; for wise men know well enough what
monsters you make of them. To a nunnery,
go, and quickly too. Farewell!


AS YOU LIKE IT
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Ros. Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am
in a holiday humour, and like enough to con-
sent. What would you say to me now, an I
were your very very Rosalind?
Orl. I would kiss before I spoke.
Ros. Nay, you were better speak first, and
when you were gravelled for lack of matter,
you might take occasion to kiss. Very good
orators, when they are out, they will spit; and
for lovers lacking,-God warn us!-matter, the
cleanliest shift is to kiss.
Orl. How if the kiss be denied?
Ros. Then she puts you to entreaty, and there
begins new matter.
Orl. Who could be out, being before his be-
loved mistress?
Ros. Marry, that should you, if I were your
mistress; or I should think my honesty ranker
than may wit.


THE GONE WITH THE WIND
BY MARGARET MITCHELL

It had begun to dawn on him that this same sweet pretty little head
was a "good head for figures." In fact, a much better one than his own
and the knowledge was disquieting. He was thunderstruck to discover
that she could swiftly add a long column of figures in her head when he
needed a pencil and paper for more than three figures. And fractions pre-
sented no difficulties to her at all. He felt there was something unbecoming
about a woman understanding fractions and business matters and he
believed that, should a woman be so unfortunate as to have such unlady-
like comprehension, she should pretend not to. Now he dislike talking
business with her as much as he had enjoyed it before they were married.
Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been
pleasant to explain things to her. Now he saw that she understood entirely
too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of
women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discover-
ing that a woman has a brain.


ORLANDO
BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

"Are you positive you aren't a man?" he would ask anxiously,
and she would echo,
"Can it be possible you're not a woman?" and then they must
put it to the proof without more ado. For each was so surprised
at the quickness of the other's sympathy, and it was to each such
a revelation that a woman could be as tolerant and free-spoken
as a man, and a man as strange and subtle as a woman, that they
had to put the matter to the proof at once.


ANTI-EDIPUS
BY DELEUZE AND GUATTARI
TRANSLATED BY
ROBERT HURLEY, MARK SEEM, AND HELEN R. LANE

We are statistically or molarly heterosexual, but personally homo-
sexual, without knowing it or being fully aware of it, and finally we are
transsexual in an element, molecular sense.


THE SECOND SEX
BY SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
TRANSLATED BY H.M.PARSHLEY

Thus the fate of woman and that of socialism are intimately bound
up together, as is shown also in Bebel's great work on woman. 'Woman
and the proletariat,' he says, 'are both downtrodden.' Both are to be
set free through the economic development consequent upon the social
upheaval brought about by machinery. The problem of woman is
reduced to the problem of her capacity for labour. Puissant at the time
when techniques were suited to her capabilities, dethroned when she
was no longer in a position to exploit them, woman regains in the
modern world her equality with man. It is the resistance of the ancient
capitalistic paternalism that in most countries prevents the concrete
realization of this equality; it will be realized on the day when this
resistance is broken, as is the facet already in the Soviet Union, accord-
ing to Soviet propaganda. And when the socialist society is established
throughout the world, there will no longer be men and women, but
only workers on a footing of equality.