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From: root@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Nominally single????
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 12:58:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 12:58:18 1985
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> I seem to remember a Charlie Chaplin movie in which there was a song
> which went, in its entirety, "Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love
> Love Love [repeated about forty times]" (If anybody can remember
> which movie it was, I'd appreciate the name). I think it summed up
> our culture about as well as anything. Maybe the reason that Madonna's
> song "Material Girl" became so popular is that its message, while
> somewhat despicable, still provides a refreshing contrast to the
> unrelieved insipidness of the fifty thousand other "Love Love Love ..."
> songs around.

A refreshing contrast, but it hardly invalidates the concept of True
Love.  Love is not as insipid as portrayed in the movies or other
popular media.  Is your concept of love coming from experience or from
the movies?

The most accurate and refreshing descriptions of love that I've seen
lately is the first cut of Eurythmic's "Sweet Dreams (are made of
these)" album entitled "Love is a Stranger."  Not at all a sacharine
sweet portrayal and in my opinion a very accurate description of what
love can be like.

> To me, the funniest thing about the way this True Love myth has been
> sold in US society is the way the private lives of some of the most
> prominent people used to sell it have differed so wildly from the myth.
> In many cases, you have the feeling that if these people had
> deliberately tried to live a life as different from the myth they sold
> as possible, they could not have done any better. Check out the life
> of Rock Hudson. Or Doris Day. Or Elvis Presley. Or John Lennon...
> ... What I'm saying is that when you compare the reality of these
> people's lives with the myth they were used to sell, this should raise
> a question in your mind about the myth. Or give you a laugh, if you
> like irony.

Oh come now.  This is true for any actor.  Rarely do their lives match the
ideals of the character lives that they portray.  Hollywood is hardly an
accurate spokesperson on ANY subject...science, religion or love...

> My feelings are that it's a bit much to expect my SO to give me a
> regular dose of magic. I'll settle for someone who'll be a good
> friend to me, and who is also willing to settle for someone who'll
> be a good friend to her. We can then try to make each other happy
> for whatever time we have on this earth until we kick the bucket.

This IS cynical.  It denies any magic other than what can be
appreciated rationally.  It accepts the pedistrian and not only does
it fail to strive for anything better... it denies that there CAN be
anything better.
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seismo!trwrdc!root				- Lord Frith