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Pastimes : Another Good Reason Not To Be Married -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wallacestevens who wrote (3011)	11/14/1998 12:04:00 AM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6545

rilke writes.. ."Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other..." infinite possibilities under the jagged glass, bound only by the constraints of imagination, don't you think... consider fromm's notion of love, or, " the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." and then, two of its more remarkable literary instances, surely soaring examples of that imagination unbound: "...he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same....If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be, and if all else remained and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a might stranger....He's always, always in my mind; not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being." ~emily bronte~ "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories? " ~george elliot~ ah, the nineteenth century...