Excerpt from “Having Your Cake and Eating It Too, the Alternative Girl’s Guide to the Modern Relationship”

The existence of Love is hardly questioned in any of the texts presented in the previous chapters. Aside from some of the more morbid ideas topics (i.e. selling of little children to the highest bidder for profit, population control, and gastronomic delights), most of the literary works discussed had to do with this most noble of emotions. Always coming in first in the race for the most righteous of sentiments (with faith and hope coming in at a close second, see Bible), love has been extolled too many times to count. Countless praises in its honor have been declared, in innumerable poems and prose, almost all repeating the same thing over and over and over again, yet still not quite really being that redundant in the presentation. In categorized tomes and collections of said miscellaneous literati, the love sections are always those with the most number of listings under them, often with subcategories and subclasses under them. On the Internet, a search on a standard search engine (i.e. www.google.com) using ‘love’ as the search string returns around 1,860,000,000 matches. The results returned range from the ordinary (a mom’s love, love and kisses, love you honey), to the bizarre (my dog love’s beer, I love bacon in my tea, love and the geophysical sciences), to the outwardly perverse (add bleeping censorship sounds here). A lot of the results also have nothing whatsoever to do with love as the sentiment; they were only inanely used somewhere in the text of the site just so it would show up when the word ‘love’ is searched. (Apparently, a lot of people search for love on the Internet. Another story entirely, but one which also bears a lot of discussion.) Read the rest of this entry »