an ecstasy of particulars

(none of them mine)
May 16
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Might as well start here…get ready for more later

“We cannot force someone to love us.  We cannot claim love as a human right.”  But this does not diminish the importance of love; rather, it indicates that the case for love cannot be made using the vocabulary of rights—nor, perhaps, any other argumentative vocabulary.

—Dr. Alan Jacobs, A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love