Read and weep

boxcorner · 02-13-2011, 03:11 PM

A Point of View: Why books do not prepare us for real love
BBC News Magazine - 11 February 2011

"Literature's lust for unrequited love leaves us ill prepared for the reality of what love really is, says Alain de Botton in his weekly column."

Maggie Leung · 02-13-2011, 03:33 PM

Lol. Books can't do many things. They can't give people common sense, for instance.

wvcherrybomb · 02-13-2011, 03:49 PM

People who believe that real life should or will mirror fiction have much bigger problems.

Maggie Leung · 02-13-2011, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wvcherrybomb

People who believe that real life should or will mirror fiction have much bigger problems.

Exactly.

FF2 · 02-13-2011, 07:10 PM

How BIG?

snipenekkid · 02-13-2011, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maggie Leung

Lol. Books can't do many things. They can't give people common sense, for instance.

WHAT???!!! You mean all wimmins are not June Cleaver in the kitchen and Xaviera Hollander in the bedroom? Sigh...I quit then!!

J. Strnad · 02-13-2011, 08:15 PM

A couple meets and falls in love. They get along pretty well, they work out their problems and are married for a long time.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz.

So much for reality. Give me drama!

Namekuseijin · 02-13-2011, 09:32 PM

I think love is the brainchild of mad poets.

boxcorner · 02-14-2011, 05:00 AM

People have been writing about love for thousands of years, and yet are still unable to reach a consensus.

gmw · 02-14-2011, 05:27 AM

That's why I watch television - so much more modern and reliable!

snipenekkid · 02-14-2011, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Namekuseijin

I think love is the brainchild of mad poets.

Nope, Al Gore invented it.

CleverClothe · 02-14-2011, 07:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snipenekkid

Nope, Al Gore invented it.

And Bush mispronounced it.

Hamlet53 · 02-14-2011, 08:08 PM

Actually counting up individual instances I have had more experience with unrequited love than mutual love. Actually if literature grossly misrepresents it is how often love is really a result of timing and circumstance.

"Hey, some kinds of love
Margarita told Tom
Between thought and expression
lies a lifetime
Situations arise
because of the weather
And no kinds of love
are better than others" – Some Kinda Love by Lou Reed

kennyc · 02-14-2011, 09:17 PM

Oh my. So true. Don't blame it on the poets, we write about death!

snipenekkid · 02-14-2011, 10:06 PM

And Quayle mispelled it!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by CleverClothe

And Bush mispronounced it.

HAHAHAHA!!

The two of them, Bush & Gore, should get together and breed the anti-keeeryst already, talk about a match made in heaven!!?!?

02-13-2011, 03:11 PM	#1
boxcorner »(°±°)« Posts: 826 Karma: 775629 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: divisive reader	Read and weep A Point of View: Why books do not prepare us for real love BBC News Magazine - 11 February 2011 "Literature's lust for unrequited love leaves us ill prepared for the reality of what love really is, says Alain de Botton in his weekly column."

02-13-2011, 03:33 PM	#2
Maggie Leung Wizard Posts: 1,449 Karma: 58383 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Kindle, iPad	Lol. Books can't do many things. They can't give people common sense, for instance. Last edited by Maggie Leung; 02-13-2011 at 03:35 PM.

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02-14-2011, 09:17 PM	#14
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