Is the concept of Love completely alien to anyone else? It's been so long since I've engaged with another human being on a semi-intimate level that I genuinely can't imagine what it's like to love or be loved romantically. This disconnects me from almost all of literature and popular music. Comiserate with me and discuss books which can dull this feel.
I really liked Moby-Dick because it didn't dawdle around with female characters.
>>9304670
Nah, I'm really good looking
I feel strange when someone told me that she loves me. (except my mother of course)
>>9304679
That has nothing to do with what I'm describing
My understanding of it comes entirely from media. My understanding of almost everything comes entirely from media. It seems nice though.
i don't think love really exists. maybe parental love kind of steers into that direction, but all other love is conditional (moat of the time, parental love isn't unconditional either) and thus not true love but a deal.
there's also friendship, which can be uncontidional too. atleast for a while. the closest thing to "real love" might be a mixture of friendship and sexual tension. which is temporary in almost all cases.
>>9304753
I've read it
The import is that romantic love is illusory. If Aristophanes was so regularly and summarily btfo'd (and by a woman mouthpiece nonetheless) it's no wonder he wrote The Clouds and helped get /ourguy/ killed.