hophead

nevermind.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

The difference between love and logic is that in they eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to the shine of many a passion.

Logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married. Descartes, architect of the age of reason, fled Paris, the city of romance, in 1628 to "escape its distractions."

Still, lovers quarrel. frequently, they quarrel simply to recharge the air between them, to sharpen the aliveness of their relationships. To precipitate such a quarrel, the sexual kimono of sexual jealousy is usually dragged out of the hamper, although any excuse will do. Only rarely is the spat rooted in the beet-deep soil of serious issue, but when it is, a special sadness attends it, for the mind is slower to heal than the heart, and such quarrels can doom a union, even one that has prospered for a very long time.