Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:37:41 -0500
Subject: Love


Read in Jean-Luc Nancy:

You can't have thinking without love.  Philosophy thinks love.

Then I go on a bike ride in the country,
See two lovers,
first locked in tight embrace,
then separated just enough to look
into one another's eyes
with the untmost of serious intentionality,
making meaning of the world
to one another
as if for the first time.

Of course, philosophy knows better.
That's not even a love worth speaking about,
let alone for the first time
(not to deny its other pleasures).

If I ever look into someone's eyes again
like that,
get me out of the bar immediately,
take me home.

Give me some Montaigne,
and put me to bed.

Allen
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  Allen Scult					Dept. of Philosophy
HOMEPAGE: " Heidegger on Rhetoric and Hermeneutics":	Drake University
http://www.multimedia2.drake.edu/s/scult/scult.html	Des Moines, Iowa 50311
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