love, analytically

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6th May 2010 • Trying to make sense of the organising principle • Topic importance: 6 / 10 • Reading time: 10 mins. 2022 Note: I wrote this in recovering from the most painful moment of my life. We are obsessed with love as much as our lovers. But there’s a difference between bare usage and actual thought about it. If anything at all does not qualify for cold, crackly analytic attention, then the unspeakable analysandum, love, is it. Because 1) it’s holistic if it is anything; because 2) it seems small from outside; because 3) it is, fundamentally, uncomfortable to read about. (But nothing doesn’t qualify.) As a culture we haven’t moved on from (or even reached the level of) the four Greek words, and we seem to be torturing ourselves over a vague mire borne of half-successful feminism and runaway adolescent bullshit. Speaking of which: Amour fou is what passes for love in most art. “true love”. Passion and possession. Augustine describes it as “eating one another up, as people do w

reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends. – A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shut it, 'Love Actually'! -- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa3eoMnMC80">Jamie McDonald</a> 2022 Note: I wrote this in recovering from the most painful moment of my life. We are obsessed with love as much as our lovers. But there’s a difference between bare usage and actual thought about it. If anything at all does not qualify for cold, crackly analytic attention, then the unspeakable analysandum, love, is it. Because 1) it’s ho

love, analytically

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