XX, XY or XXX?

Jeff Koons in the Position of Adam

What is the meaning of heaven and hell? Is it simply a primitive dichotomy, a limbic or lower brain activity like darkness and light? Is this piece of consciousness derived biologically from the great chain of being? Take another biblical dichotomy Adam and Eve, the eponymous fighting couple that would one day constitute the iconography of Seinfeld and Larry David. Adam and Eve, of course, have an important function in the advent of human sexuality. They presided over the advent of shame, a much maligned emotion--and one of the most important ingredients of sexual desire? Modern man walks around with more than a fig leaf. Not withstanding quantum computing binary numbers, O or 1, are still the basis of the digital vocabulary. Today binary is also a way of declaring sexual orientation. It used to be simply AC/DC like current, but when you graduate into adult life it's no longer XX, or XY chromosomes that define your status.

read Joan Baum's review of Francis Levy's The Kafka Studies Department with Illustrations by Hallie Cohen

and listen to "The Harder They Come" by Jimmy Cliff