English· 1:34:17· 12 chapters
A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel.
From the text:
A man is like a park squirrel; if you fling your favors or your charms at his head he will never come up and eat out of your hand.
Even Satan could find a woman to call him "Dearie," if he would simply tell her that all he needed was "a beautiful woman's uplifting influence."
Every bride fancies that she married the original "cave-man" until she tries to persuade him to go out and argue with the furniture-movers.
From the text:
A man is like a park squirrel; if you fling your favors or your charms at his head he will never come up and eat out of your hand.
Even Satan could find a woman to call him "Dearie," if he would simply tell her that all he needed was "a beautiful woman's uplifting influence."
Every bride fancies that she married the original "cave-man" until she tries to persuade him to go out and argue with the furniture-movers.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
01 - Foreword. Overture (Prelude, Refrain)
05:20 - Chapter 2
02 - Bachelors (First Interlude)
10:20 - Chapter 3
03 - True Love--How to know it (Variations)
06:26 - Chapter 4
04 - Blondes (Cymbals and Kettle-drums)
08:14 - Chapter 5
05 - What Every Woman Wonders (Second Interlude)
11:32 - Chapter 6
06 - Brides (Syncopations)
08:59 - Chapter 7
07 - Divorces (Third Interlude)
07:02 - Chapter 8
08 - Widows (Improvisations)
07:33 - Chapter 9
09 - Widowers (Fourth Interlude)
08:09 - Chapter 10
10 - Second Marriages (Intermezzo)
08:06 - Chapter 11
11 - Woman and Her Infinite Variety
05:03 - Chapter 12
12 - Maxims of Cleopatra (Finale)
07:33