[lit-ideas] Re: Valentine's Day Meditations
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:02:26 -0800
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I posted an old picture of my wife and me
on the blog.
Lawrence
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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andy Amago
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:53 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Valentine's Day Meditations
For what it's worth, I'll comment that teenage sex looks good from the
outside. On the inside it's fraught with anxiety. Often it's a search for
love and a settling for sex. Maybe the newest generations of kids will
change that with their "hooking up" and allegedly normalizing of oral sex as
not really sex. (Does Maureen Dowd address this in her book?) I suspect
that some variation of "loose" is still applied to girls, and fuck you has
not morphed into a positive expression. When Princess Di and Prince Charles
got married, they were the classic lucky couple, picture of happiness.
Their marriage turned into a nightmare. Likewise, all those balloons and
teddy bears make a nice cover for the untold story underneath.
Apologies to Lawrence. He's a nice guy, loves his country. I love my
country too. We love it in different ways. That's because it's a democracy
and we can do that.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Stone <mailto:pas@xxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 2/15/2006 2:23:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Valentine's Day Meditations
AA:Anybody need any more evidence that (outside of a committed relationship)
sex and love are all but mutually exclusive? If power of one form or
another was taken out of sex, lust, for that matter even interest in sex,
would disappear. Not changing the subject. Lust, power, war they're all on
the same continuum.
Yesterday, as I returned from lunch, I drove through our town, and being the
day that it was, there were countless "couples" of high school kids walking
arm in arm with all manner of balloons, teddy bears, some even with flowers.
It seemed more about the 'love' than the sex. I remembered fondly the
innocent handing out of valentines when we were in school. In the interest
of fairness, we HAD to give one to every person of the opposite sex, but we
could be especially smoochy to the girls we really liked. The same applied
to girls. I t was kind of nice to find 14 or 15 valentines in our little
construction-paper sleeves hung at the back of the room with our names on
it. It was an easy measure of who 'really' liked whom.
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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