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"a stale paleoparthenoidean odor"
"the Nietzschean Übermensch [(surhomme)] emits, whatever he does, a stale paleoparthenoidean odor [(un relent paléoparthénoïde)]. As had happened to so many others, from Walt Whitman to Henry de Montherlant, when the voice of Zarathustra rises to [its] maximum to affirm the Beyond [Good and] Evil [(le
surmâle)], a fatal squawk gives away the old maid in drag [(la vieille fille en travesti)]. The pathetic great man was as capable as your average bourgeois of deceiving himself as to [(pouvait bien s'illusionner bourgeoisement sur)] the initiatory virtues of a noctural descent into the Venetian brothel. For lack of a better proof of a problematic virility, he brought back from there only the 'French disease'."
Louis Bouyer, Religieux et clercs contre Dieu, Présence et pensée (Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1975), 51. paléoparthénoïde < παλαιο-παρθεν-οειδης, old maid-like.
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