| [ EnglishOnly ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): jhan (한바다 ) 날 짜 (Date): 1994년10월02일(일) 04시57분27초 KDT 제 목(Title): Reality check Maybe, the problem results from the reductionistic attitude on every thing. Analysing, say, love gets followed by categorizing it to intimacy, commitment, compulsive emotion, additive, dysfuntional, etc.; experts needed to tear it off in order for their degree? You can NOT find a guy with eye-popping shape, smartness that makes Einstein cry, understanding Jesus envy, silky talk Letterman blush, "skill" Casanova make suicide, and money that can buy whole land of Shinjuku. All has ups and downs. Love (in real) possesses soft tongue and chilling sneer. The mystery of (romantic) love comes from this ambivalentness. Love has it all. Maybe, it is this Yin-and-Yang-faced ambivalentness that colors living of our own. "Madness is ambivalent; it can be divine or insane, inspired or crack- pot," Plato once reminded us (or so they say). Why I feel I sound old here? Still young... -------------------------------------------- 혹시라도 어쩌다가 아픔같은 것이 저며올 때는 그럴 땐 바다를 생각해 바다 ... ----- 김민기의 <봉우리> 중에서 ----------- J jhan@ucsd.edu |