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The features that define this eros have already emerged in the course of our exploration of bittersweetness. Simultaneous pleasure and pain are its symptom. Lack is its animating, fundamental constituent. As syntax, it impressed us as something of a subterfuge: properly a noun, eros acts everywhere like a verb. Its action is to reach, and the reach of desire involves every lover in an activity of the imagination.

On the surface of it, the lover wants the beloved. This, of course, is not really the case. If we look carefully at a lover in the midst of desire, for example Sappho in her fragment 31, we see how severe an experience for her is confrontation with the beloved even at a distance. Union would be annihilating.

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“The breath of desire is Eros. Inescapable as the environment itself, with his wings he moves love in and out of all creatures at will. The individual’s total vulnerability to erotic influence is symbolized by those wings with their multisensual power to permeate and take control of a lover at any moment.”

ful sem confused v svojem branju tko trudim se brat to, fulll mi je zanimiva ampak ce se cel dan ucim sem prevec braindead za nonfiction (al pa poezijo) zato bom mogoc zacela se en fiction brat?? idk ful bi si rada vzela se cas da analiziram to kar sem ze prebrala more in depth ampak mam hkrati tko 20 knjig k zgledajo tok zanimive in jih bo treba vrnt joooj its making me so stressed pa tok algebre se mam za narest