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" I argue that the opposition between Rossini and Wagner should be conceived along the lines of two modes of sublime: the mathematical and the dynamic sublime. In order to make the point clear, I take a very basic example which I read about somewhere: that of cunnilingus. When men perform cunnilingus on women, when they strike the right note and the woman says 'yes, yes, more please!', then what usually happens is that men perform it faster and stronger - but this is a mistake. They should just do it quantitatively more. The difference is that women think in terms of the mathematical sublime - quantitatively more - whereas men think in terms of the dynamic sublime, and then they ruin it. It is an example confirmed to me by many friends. The usual mistake is that if the woman is saying 'yes, yes, that's it,' the men think they mean faster and stronger - but it's precisely not that. "

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Slavoj Žižek quote : I argue that the opposition between Rossini and Wagner should be conceived along the lines of two modes of sublime: the mathematical and the dynamic sublime. In order to make the point clear, I take a very basic example which I read about somewhere: that of cunnilingus. When men perform cunnilingus on women, when they strike the right note and the woman says 'yes, yes, more please!', then what usually happens is that men perform it faster and stronger - but this is a mistake. They should just do it quantitatively more. The difference is that women think in terms of the mathematical sublime - quantitatively more - whereas men think in terms of the dynamic sublime, and then they ruin it. It is an example confirmed to me by many friends. The usual mistake is that if the woman is saying 'yes, yes, that's it,' the men think they mean faster and stronger - but it's precisely not that.