By Laura Kipnis
Who may dream of being opposed to love? No one.
Love is, as we all know, a mysterious and all-controlling strength, with substantial strength over our techniques and existence decisions.
But is there anything a piece worrisome approximately all this uniformity of opinion? is that this the only topic approximately which no confrontation might be entertained, approximately which one fact by myself is permissible? think about that the main robust geared up religions produce the occasional heretic; each ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows locate their butchers. apart from love.
Hence the need for a polemic opposed to it. A polemic is designed to be the prose identical of a small explosive machine put lower than your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won't injure you (well now not severely); it's simply purported to shake issues up and rattle a number of convictions.
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