Do You Write or Think? Mr Nietzsche's Assessment of Your Dilemma.

[onebatmotherofgoditschilly]

I had forgotten this:

"The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism "aut liberi aut libri [either children or books]."
?Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Ten years ago I would have turned the page with a sigh and a sneer.

Today...?

He's overtheorising I think. This is the "pram in the hallway" with knobs on.

Isn't the main issue that when women have children they grow up pdq and have to spend a lot of time dedicated to others and therefore don't have much spare time to dedicate to thinking about exactly what eating a madeleine is like

lol monkey and margo!

Think you've hit the nail on the head Margo. One is too busy wiping the madeleine off the walls.

"baking madeleines", Iorek, surely?

in fragrant kitchen, with the sound of children's laughter echoing through the house?

Yes that's right. It's like a Doris Day film round my house...

Caster sugar is key and the lemons should be unwaxed, much like my bikini line.

My bikini line is much like Nietzsche's moustache.

...I was told that when I had children I won't have time to read anymore... ... I just had fat BF babies.

Nietzsche's moustache

can't see nietzsche's bikini line/moustache swedes, link won;t work!

I heard Nietzsche favoured the Brazilian

g/450px-FriedrichNietzschedrawnbyHans_Olde.jpg My bikini line

Whoops try again

no that's not working either.

The suspense is unbearable.

Nietzsche's 'tache or Threadworm's personal neglect? You decide

Is anyone else humming ZZ Top songs?

Threadworm - that is the very link I tried originally. It is a whole lot of moustache isn't it?

These highly intellectual threads on mumsnet just prove the falsity of Nietzsche's dissing of mothers' creative potential, don't they.

Wow. Threadworm you must be a whole lotta woman.

Yes quite Threadworm. If old merkin 'tache could see us now he'd be eating his words.

lolololol at both of them! I had NO idea!
can you imagine a leetle bit of front-bottom/moustache action with Frrrriedrrrrrich? It would be almost.. bestial.

And oh god, think of the food bits that would be hiding deep beneath the combed outer layer of mouth-fringe.

It's true - highly unhygenic. No wonder he was having trouble with his entrails.

lol Iorek

And his literary ladyfriend, "listening every minute with painful curiosity.. to the snuffling animal burrowing down below"

fireflytoo ye-es. Ye-es, me too.