![]() ![]() There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ![]() I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Bob ThavesĪll right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. Inside me there’s a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes. Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. The Tinder profile card could hardly be a more perfect example from today.“I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill.” – Henny Youngman Quotes to Make You Laugh We don’t fall in love with an object in isolation but with how it appears in a curate scene determined by a variety of technologies. The technologies of our space, place and time set the scene for love to appear – make the emergence of desire possible. Lotte emerges from amidst these objects and Werther is ‘initiated’ as ‘the scene’ (described by Werther as the ‘most charming spectacle’) ‘consecrates the object going to love.’ It is that scene, that arrangement of objects, which makes desire – even love – possible. Instead, for Werther what is important is what Barthes would call ‘the arrangements of objects’: Lotte’s relation to the children, the rye loaf, and the knife, all appear as scene-setting props which make desire possible. Some of them ran away at once, to enjoy their evening meal whilst others, of a gentler disposition, retired to the courtyard to see the strangers, and to survey the carriage in which their Charlotte was to drive away." The focus here is not on Lotte herself, of whom we learn only that she is ‘a lady of middle height, with a lovely figure, dressed in a robe of simple white’. She performed her task in a graceful and affec-tionate manner each claimant awaiting his turn with outstretched hands, and boisterously shouting his thanks. She was holding a rye loaf in her hand and was cutting slices for the little ones all around, in proportion to their age and appetite. Six children, from eleven to two years old, were running about the hall, and surrounding a lady of middle height, with a lovely figure, dressed in a robe of simple white, trimmed with pink ribbons. Werther, as Geothe’s narrator, describes the moment of desire in the first person: "I walked across the court to a well-built house, and, ascending the flight of steps in front, opened the door, and saw before me the most charming spectacle I had ever witnessed. “Indeed, it was perhaps the most iconic scene from any novel of its day, immortalised in engravings and artworks from the period and later. How online romance is threatening monogamy" in January/February 2013”Ī Million First Dates: Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating “Above all, Internet dating has helped people of all ages realize that there’s no need to settle for a mediocre relationship.” “The market is hugely more efficient … People expect to-and this will be increasingly the case over time-access people anywhere, anytime, based on complex search requests … Such a feeling of access affects our pursuit of love … the whole world (versus, say, the city we live in) will, increasingly, feel like the market for our partner(s). “Low quality, unhappy and unsatisfying marriages are being destroyed as people drift to Internet dating sites.” “Internet dating may be partly responsible for a rise in the divorce rates.” “Internet dating has made people more disposable.” “In 2011, Mark Brooks, a consultant to online-dating companies, published the results of an industry survey titled “How Has Internet Dating Changed Society?” The survey responses, from 39 executives, produced the following conclusions: ![]()
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