Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watrose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watrose!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watrose.UUCP (John M Sellens) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Quote about falling in love Message-ID: <6835@watrose.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 02:36:15 EDT Article-I.D.: watrose.6835 Posted: Mon Jun 18 02:36:15 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Jun-84 06:50:01 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 43 I was just going through some of my stuff and found this. I wanted to show it to someone... "Back in the days before he fell in love, he was never bored. He was seldom sad, either, and never about something as trite and foolish and unmanly as a dead teddy bear with all its stuffing gone. Back in the days before he fell in love his thoughts were always full, either dwelling on the girl he'd just finished balling or the one he was balling now, or laying plans for balling a new one in the future. His head had been as full of legs and arms and breasts as a butcher shop. All of that was in the past now, and although he looked back on those days with nostalgia and yearning, he knew they would never come again, or at least, they wouldn't come again for a while. Getting into bed with anyone but Bitsy would be about as much fun as getting into a bed with a corpse. Falling in love hadn't enriched his life, it had drained it of everything that had given it meaning and substance. Falling in love was the worst thing that had ever happened to him. ... He supposed it would be a good test of love if your heart were to leap when your girl came into the room. He imagined Bitsy coming into the room. His heart leapt. He was still in love. Prey to these and other, even less coherent but no more cheerful thoughts, he lay awake on top of his bed for half the night, listening to the house creak and snap as the earth swung through its orbit and the moon pulled at the seas. It was amaz- ing how pathetic everything seemed when your spirit was so deso- late. He was bored with that, too, but there didn't seem to be anything he could do about it." Stolen from "Walking Small" A novel by L.J. Davis, 1974 (Sorry, didn't write down the publisher, etc.) ---- John M Sellens UUCP: watmath!watrose!jmsellens CSNET: jmsellens%watrose@waterloo.csnet ARPA: jmsellens%watrose%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa