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If the serpents had written History they would have proudly related how their ancestor had belonged to woman. And it was during love dispute between woman and her companion, a dispute god had every interest in no one ever knowing he had been the adulterous cause, as for any oriental god, that the jealous companion violently seized her serpent. But serpents are a people with no writing and it is god who has the word.
—Hélène Cixous, La