Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site petrus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!petrus!sms From: sms@petrus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: what is love? Message-ID: <2900001@petrus.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 17:41:00 EST Article-I.D.: petrus.2900001 Posted: Sun Jan 20 17:41:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 04:17:44 EST References: <2139@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc. Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:nsc:-213900:petrus:2900001:000:845 Nf-From: petrus!sms Jan 20 17:41:00 1985 With classic literary references: I strongly recommend "The Four Loves" by C. S. Lewis, especially "Friendship" and "Eros". Those who are apolitical may want to skip the first chapter, Those who are antireligious may want to skip the last chapter, This book is available in most book stores ( Love at < $3.00). Stendhal's "Love" is a minor classic. Note his definition of Crystallization. [ There is a also a book by Laclos(?) which is very helpful if you want to seduce Western women. For Indian women, read the Kama Sutra. ] Kiekegaard "Works of Love" will put you to shame for any kind of possessiveness. It basically expands a paragraph of the New testament into 378 pages. It is best read at 1 page per night. What? You don't read Zen and Plato with your SO? stephe "All other pleasures are not worth its pains" Emerson "Love"