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Feb 14– Pascal’s “Discourse on The Passion of Love” translated by O. W. Wight
Summary: Pascal attempts to overanalyze the rational basis of love, in the least romantic possible Valentine's day reading.
Commentary: Seriously, I've read more romantic descriptions of boiling water. Also, super sexist/heteronormative. And vaguely obsessive. I feel like if Pascal was alive today many women would find him kind of creepy. We couldn't have gotten Sonnet 130 (when I'm asking for a poem instead you know it's bad) or something today? There's got to be at least a dozen (probably a hundred) better pieces on romance already in T5FSOB.
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