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From: jmsellens@watrose.UUCP (John M Sellens)
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Subject: Quote about falling in love
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Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 02:36:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 02:36:15 1984
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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.)

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John M Sellens
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