Valentine's day thoughts

These thoughts on love were collated by Ben Schott and I pass them on to you not as mine but something we share.

From the Hindus who recognized the symptoms of love:
1. Love of the Eyes
2. Attraction of the mind
3. Birth of desire
4. Loss of sleep
5. Loss of flesh
6. Indifference to objects of sense
7. Loss of shame
8. Distraction of thought
9. Loss of consciousness
10. Death


Hollywood definition of love in 1918- the formula for love at first sight

Enlarge the eyes to indicate wonder,
then smile, suffuse the face , to register satisfaction,
ending in pointed brows by which one interrogates.
The chest heaves to indicate the heart has been stirred to the nethermost depths,
followed by determination to have her at any cost;
this is shown by a toss of the head, thrust of the chin, and tense clenching of the fists.

This was followed by Ricardo and Lucy in single beds in I Love Lucy- very suggestive leaving little to the imagination- at what might be going on, to Desperate Housewifes, where we are told too much with no punctuation. How far we have fallen in 90 years.



My favorite

Love:-What a Volume in a Word

An Ocean in a Tear,
A Seventh Heaven in a Glance,
A Whirlwind in a Sigh,
The Lightening in a Touch, and
A Millennium in a Moment

by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Thank you Martin

Happy Valentine's Day. Love to All, Eric