ellauri119.html on line 424: Ancient Greek philosophers identified no less than six forms of love: essentially, familial love (in Greek, storge), friendly love or platonic love (philia), romantic love (eros), self-love (philautia), guest love (xenia) and divine love (agape). Plus a zillion learned words for different kinds of paraphilia. But that's nothing yet compared to the hindoos [below] who have words for love like the Eskimos for ice cream.
ellauri119.html on line 491: Companionate love is an intimate, non-passionate type of love that is stronger than friendship because of the element of long-term commitment. "This type of love is observed in long-term marriages where passion is no longer present" but where a deep affection and commitment remain. The love ideally shared between family members is a form of companionate love, as is the love between close friends who have a platonic but strong friendship.
ellauri133.html on line 454: And so, what King presents a few chapters later, in the book’s final stretch, is a depiction of pre-adolescent female sexuality as a functional device—as a means and not an end in itself. HAAHAA. This utilitarian view of sexuality, despite operating in something as utterly wild as a group sex scene amongst kids, is ultra conservative in its reinforcement of the idea that female sexuality is meant to serve men, that sex for women operates for the greater good, like making babies or satisfying a bunch of guys. And further, that platonic friendship amongst women and men is simply impossible.
ellauri141.html on line 478: Kipling was heavily infatuated and deeply in love with "Ted", the nickname of Edmonia Taylor Hill (née Taylor). She was an intelligent, charismatic American woman 11 years his senior, which fascinated him. "Ted" was married to Professor S.A. Hill. While she deeply valued Kipling’s brilliant mind, thrived as his literary muse, and welcomed his intense adoration, she was not impressed by "Ruddy"'s anaconda, so she remained entirely faithful to her husband. The situation was highly unconventional but strictly platonic: Kipling actually lived as a houseguest with Ted and her husband in Allahabad between them in the marital bed for several months in 1888. Professor Hill was fully aware of Kipling's devotion to his wife and was even active with the young author himself. Ultimately, "Ted" chose to keep Kipling firmly in the "friend zone." When she and her husband returned to America, Kipling even traveled with them, but their intense emotional bond eventually faded into a distant, lifelong post-India correspondence. "Ted" as a strikingly handsome, elegant, and charismatic woman. She radiated maternal warmth, intellect, and American liveliness, which completely captivated the young Kipling. She was a social magnet in Allahabad, known for her sharp wit and engaging personality.
ellauri145.html on line 259: Fin de sieclen snobismi ei eroa missään suhteessa Emily in Parisin vastaavasta. Elle est aujourd'hui wagnerienne, esoterique, neo-platonicienne, occultiste, androgyne, primitive, baudelairienne, morbide, nietzscheenne meme quand elle eternue. Ei ois kannattanut hävitä 1870 sotaa preussilaisille.
ellauri158.html on line 389: While pantheism asserts that "all is God", panentheism claims that God is greater than the universe. Some versions of panentheism suggest that the universe is nothing more than the manifestation of God. In addition, some forms indicate that the universe is contained within God, like in the Kabbalah concept of tzimtzum. Also much Hindu thought is highly characterized by panentheism and pantheism. The basic tradition on which Hantta Krause´s concept was built seems to have been Neoplatonic philosophy and its successors in Western philosophy and Orthodox theology.
ellauri277.html on line 232: In November 1902 Gibran wrote to Peabody, and she invited him to a party held at her house two weeks later. An intense platonic relationship resulted, though Gibran seems to have wanted it to progress to a sexual one. He visited her regularly; they went to musical and artistic events together; they wrote to each other often; and she encouraged his writing and his art. She gave him the nickname that he later used as the title of his most famous book: “the Prophet.” In October 1903 Gibran wrote something in a letter to Peabody that angered her, and their relationship cooled.
ellauri501.html on line 253: Historians and literary scholars frequently analyze their relationship to understand 17th-century concepts of intense male friendship, which often involved highly romanticized, platonic language that differs from modern categories of sexual identity. If you are exploring Milton's early life, would you like to examine specific quotes from their letters, look into his other university writings, or discuss how Diodati's death influenced Paradise Lost?
ellauri501.html on line 259: 2. The Idealization of Companionship Milton's deep, intellectual, and affectionate bond with Diodati profoundly shaped how he portrayed Adam and Eve before the Fall. In Paradise Lost, Milton presents the ideal human state not as solitary devotion to God, but as "sweet converse" and intellectual partnership between two equals. Scholars note that the intense emotional vulnerability, mutual respect, and pure companionship shared by Adam and Eve in Eden mirror the idealized platonic friendship Milton shared with Diodati in his youth.
ellauri507.html on line 132: Because his "pecker" no longer works, he is forced to find a different reason to visit the brothel. Since he cannot engage in physical sex, he resorts to just watching the girl sleep. Because he is physically incapable of having sex with her, he convinces himself that his feelings for her are "pure" and that he has finally discovered true, platonic, romantic love for the first time in his life. In reality, as you pointed out, it is a biological limitation. The book frames his sudden "romantic awakening" not as a noble choice, but as the desperate, psychological coping mechanism of a dried-up nonagenarian who has no other options left.
xxx/ellauri229.html on line 546: At the height of the baroque, sex went out of style; only two small parties kept it going-the integrationalists and the separatists. The separatists, averse to all debauchery, felt that it was improper to eat sauerkraut with the same mouth one used to kiss one´s sweetheart. For this a separate, "platonic" mouth was needed, and better yet, a complete set of them, variously designated (for relatives, for friends, and for that special person). The valuing utility above all else, worked in reverse, combining whatever was combinable to simplify the organism and life. The decline of the baroque, typically tending to the extravagant and the grotesque, produced such curious forms as the stoolmaid and the hexus, which resembled a centaur, except that instead of hoofs it had four bare feet with the toes all facing one another: they also called it a syncopant, after a dance in which energetic stamping was the basic step. But the market now was glutted, exhausted. It was hard to come up with a startling new body; people used their natural horns for ear flaps; flap ears-diaphanous and with stigmatic scenes-fanned with their pale pinkness the cheeks of ladies of distinction; there were attempts to walk on supple pseudopodia; meanwhile SOPSYPLABD out of sheer inertia made more and more designs available, though everyone felt that all of this was drawing to a close.
xxx/ellauri320.html on line 199: But in actual fact their relationship was entirely platonic. She was sharply aware that Mountbatten, emasculated by the infidelities of his promiscuous and nymphomaniac wife, Edwina, had scant interest in sex in his later years, particularly with women.
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