The proper way to go about or be guided through the ways of love is to start c with beautiful things in this world and always make the beauty I’ve been talking about the reason for your ascent. You should use the things of this world as rungs in a ladder. You start by loving one attractive body and step up to two; from there you move on to physical beauty in general, from there to the beauty of people’s activities, from there to the beauty of intellectual endeavours, and from there you ascend to that final intellectual endeavour,* which is no more and no less than the study of that beauty, so that* you finally recognize true beauty. ‘“What else could make life worth living, my dear d Socrates,” the woman from Mantinea said, “than seeing true beauty?
Fowl Eulogies p.27 - Ma - watching romance films, translating the words, and always 'stories of thwarted love an trash that no one took out' - even in the middle of a high speed chase, lips firmly pressed together, characters uttered words of love
Nussbaum - difficulty of love - conflicted feelings about 'who and how and when and whether' we love - difficulty ishow to know what view of ourselves, what parts of ourselves to trust? we find ourselves asking where in this plurality of discordant voices with which we ad ress ourselves on this topic is the criterion of truth
Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss and I’d never really got it - got the painting, got why it was so popular until I realised how perfectly it shows what it feels like to go all squirmy swirly inside
Madame Bovary - if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since none of us can ever express the exact measure of our needs, or our ideas, or our sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when we long to move the stars to pity.
Persian story/ version of the fall of Satan. He is the favoured angel; god creates man; god tells the angels to bow to man; satan refuses - he loves god and will only bow to him; so god banished him to hell and hell is the absence of the beloved (The Power of Myth 256)
the jumping force of interest between V and me, both mutual and outward, that makes the world seem so rich and teeming with spectacle
What I missed wasn't so much getting love as giving it. I just wanted to -- I wanted to cover her with love
I feel, when I'm with him, that I'm holding myself lightly in check - the light claustrophobia of some men. Helen garner
In the 17th century people used to say encore after sex
The proper way to go about or be guided through the ways of love is to start c with beautiful things in this world and always make the beauty I’ve been talking about the reason for your ascent. You should use the things of this world as rungs in a ladder. You start by loving one attractive body and step up to two; from there you move on to physical beauty in general, from there to the beauty of people’s activities, from there to the beauty of intellectual endeavours, and from there you ascend to that final intellectual endeavour,* which is no more and no less than the study of that beauty, so that* you finally recognize true beauty. ‘“What else could make life worth living, my dear d Socrates,” the woman from Mantinea said, “than seeing true beauty?
Diotima - symposium - Love as the child of poverty and plenty, riches accessible to the poorest, the two seperate axis that shouldn’t be combined
Fowl Eulogies p.27 - Ma - watching romance films, translating the words, and always 'stories of thwarted love an trash that no one took out' - even in the middle of a high speed chase, lips firmly pressed together, characters uttered words of love
My goodness - Navlny - description of his love for Yulia, waiting in the coma, her cutting through.
Blake - Never seek to tell thy love / Love that never told can be.
Nussbaum - difficulty of love - conflicted feelings about 'who and how and when and whether' we love - difficulty ishow to know what view of ourselves, what parts of ourselves to trust? we find ourselves asking where in this plurality of discordant voices with which we ad ress ourselves on this topic is the criterion of truth
Yannis - ‘falling, crashing, absolutely plummeting for….’
Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss and I’d never really got it - got the painting, got why it was so popular until I realised how perfectly it shows what it feels like to go all squirmy swirly inside
One of the effects of increasing literacy has been to give love an importance it never enjoyed before in human history. Voice from the Attic
Madame Bovary - if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since none of us can ever express the exact measure of our needs, or our ideas, or our sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when we long to move the stars to pity.
HIMEROS – the embodiment of desperate, impetuous love, love that is impatient to be fulfilled and ready to burst. - Mythos
Persian story/ version of the fall of Satan. He is the favoured angel; god creates man; god tells the angels to bow to man; satan refuses - he loves god and will only bow to him; so god banished him to hell and hell is the absence of the beloved (The Power of Myth 256)