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Dec. 13th, 2004 02:58 pmApologies to all, but I feel a need to fill this with stuff, so that the entries can space out and make my new layout look alright.
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If I were clever, or on the mood for that sort of thing, I'd write some sort of drabble about Eros, like where he's been the past two thousand years. Which is silly, because of course he's been everywhere. If he were not everywhere, then the question "why are there over six billion people on the Earth?" would be much more pressing, and troublesome.
A rather frightening truth occurs to me. Eros wanders, constantly. Where there is love: there he is. Where there is passion: again, he's there. Having muselike qualities, he's also constantly near people who create beautiful things, music and poetry and the like.
Considering, 1: how many people there are in the world and 2: how much people in general seem to like sex, and even 3: how many nightclubs, recording studios, and street corners (etc) there exist on the planet, we can then come to two conclusions.
First: That Eros is never bored. Ever. If something interesting is happening, he's most likely there. And even if he's heard the same song a million times, if it's performed with passion, then he will still enjoy it.
Second: That Eros is never lonely. He never has been, and never will be. At any given moment, someone will be loving someone else (and not even necessarily in a physical way, though I'd be willing to bet that not a moment passes when at least two people are having sex). It can even be said that it's impossible for Eros to feel lonely, because as soon as love stops, then he will cease to exist.
These conclusions, really, make him a pretty frightening character.
This means that, despite what he is, it's actually rather difficult for him to sympathize with anyone. Need someone to love? Well, go find 'em - it's easy! Being cheated on? Fight fire with fire! There are many, many human emotions that are not centered around passion, but Eros cannot understand them.
In the words of my history prof, who was talking about something entirely different: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem you see starts to look like a nail."
I think I've filled the space now.
Need entires!
Scrolly scroll!
If I were clever, or on the mood for that sort of thing, I'd write some sort of drabble about Eros, like where he's been the past two thousand years. Which is silly, because of course he's been everywhere. If he were not everywhere, then the question "why are there over six billion people on the Earth?" would be much more pressing, and troublesome.
A rather frightening truth occurs to me. Eros wanders, constantly. Where there is love: there he is. Where there is passion: again, he's there. Having muselike qualities, he's also constantly near people who create beautiful things, music and poetry and the like.
Considering, 1: how many people there are in the world and 2: how much people in general seem to like sex, and even 3: how many nightclubs, recording studios, and street corners (etc) there exist on the planet, we can then come to two conclusions.
First: That Eros is never bored. Ever. If something interesting is happening, he's most likely there. And even if he's heard the same song a million times, if it's performed with passion, then he will still enjoy it.
Second: That Eros is never lonely. He never has been, and never will be. At any given moment, someone will be loving someone else (and not even necessarily in a physical way, though I'd be willing to bet that not a moment passes when at least two people are having sex). It can even be said that it's impossible for Eros to feel lonely, because as soon as love stops, then he will cease to exist.
These conclusions, really, make him a pretty frightening character.
This means that, despite what he is, it's actually rather difficult for him to sympathize with anyone. Need someone to love? Well, go find 'em - it's easy! Being cheated on? Fight fire with fire! There are many, many human emotions that are not centered around passion, but Eros cannot understand them.
In the words of my history prof, who was talking about something entirely different: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem you see starts to look like a nail."
I think I've filled the space now.
