“There is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It is the love of a man or a woman for their world. For the world of their center where their lives burn genuinely and with a free flame.”
It’s easy to assume that my own feelings towards things either do or should map to the feelings of others. LW example, monster aliens recognizing the inherent beauty of women in torn dresses.
I like this quote for emphasizing that others might love, or fear, or hate, or covet, whatever. I regard the notion of where someone sits down to eat as a casual decision, but in prison (or high school), it can have great emotional weight and be fraught with consequences. If someone bites his thumb at me, I might scoff, but Tybalt might call for a duel.
I’ll also confess to a personal bias for the quote. I’m something of a hermit, and take a fierce joy in my, I dunno, groove (in the Emperor’s New Groove sense). Positive depictions of loners are rare enough that I’m perhaps a bit of a sucker for a quote that even hints at one.
“There is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It is the love of a man or a woman for their world. For the world of their center where their lives burn genuinely and with a free flame.”
Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
It’s a nice quote but what has it to do with rationality?
It’s easy to assume that my own feelings towards things either do or should map to the feelings of others. LW example, monster aliens recognizing the inherent beauty of women in torn dresses.
I like this quote for emphasizing that others might love, or fear, or hate, or covet, whatever. I regard the notion of where someone sits down to eat as a casual decision, but in prison (or high school), it can have great emotional weight and be fraught with consequences. If someone bites his thumb at me, I might scoff, but Tybalt might call for a duel.
I’ll also confess to a personal bias for the quote. I’m something of a hermit, and take a fierce joy in my, I dunno, groove (in the Emperor’s New Groove sense). Positive depictions of loners are rare enough that I’m perhaps a bit of a sucker for a quote that even hints at one.