Love Lit 101

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/opinion/13dowd.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd


Love Lit 101
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: February 13, 2005

WASHINGTON

There are many angles for romance.

In the movie "Silk Stockings," Fred Astaire uses geography. He croons to the leggy Soviet apparatchik Cyd Charisse that he loves "the east, west, north, and the south of you."

In "My Little Chickadee," Mae West rolls her hips and eyes and goes with arithmetic. "A man has $100 and you leave him with $2," she lectures a class of schoolchildren. "That's subtraction."


Physics, of course. As an old boyfriend used to say: "It's all electromagnetic."

And then there's my favorite: the alphabetical approach.......

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Nice day for being single

I'm not too upset about not being paired off right now, but it seems that V.D. (Valentine's Day) is simply a form of ritualized torture for those bereft of or conflicted in love.

I've always found it worth a laugh or two that our culture prizes love so highly but then is quick to tear it down when it does happen.

And of course, if I really wanted to badly enough, I could find That Special Someone by paying $20 a month to some dating website.

Wilhelm Reich would say that our orgonomic flow has been disrupted. Must be the AARP ... or is the HAARP?

All you need is Love, $20 a month, and a tinfoil hat.

--p!

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2. glad Maureen like x-files