[lit-ideas] Re: Valentine's Day Meditations

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:22:45 EST

It's rather Pauline ......the Corinthian chapter on love.....clanging  
symbols, etc.
 
Julie Krueger

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>...that one does not push asceticism to  the point where it makes friendly 
>intercourse impossible,

Somehow  I think he might have meant something different, but if he didn't, 
maybe he  had the "noughties" in mind. He may have been even more  prophetic.

>and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and  broken up by life, 
>which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love  upon other human 
>individuals.

That's very well said.

p  

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