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The culture of the Mediterranean is an erotic one, all sensual love, from food to art. Even Mediterranean religion and philosophy are erotic. Rome is the supreme shrine of the Christian love-cult. In Rome, we venture upon excursions into the artifacts of Christian history and into the contemporary practices of Christian love devotion. What are morality and sanctity, love-style?
Whatever our pretensions to culture, we are, deep down, just naked animals, and naked in our needs, one of which is love. Needy, we want romance, we are Romantics. We drift into fantasies and illusions in our desperate search for love. Deprived, frustrated, we suffer jealousy, we inflict cruelty. Haunted by our failures, we may end up with broken hearts.
And yet, love certainly has its lighter side. We eavesdrop on the conversations of men's and women's misunderstandings of each other, we consider some odd matches, and argue which sex is superior. The author relates his own Roman romances, interjects some aphorisms, and then gets straightened out by a sybil.
Love is volume three of ROMAN RUMINATIONS, "the psychology of the human as enculturated animal".
The culture of the Mediterranean is an erotic one, all sensual love, from food to art. Even Mediterranean religion and philosophy are erotic. Rome is the supreme shrine of the Christian love-cult. In Rome, we venture upon excursions into the artifacts of Christian history and into the contemporary practices of Christian love devotion. What are morality and sanctity, love-style?
Whatever our pretensions to culture, we are, deep down, just naked animals, and naked in our needs, one of which is love. Needy, we want romance, we are Romantics. We drift into fantasies and illusions in our desperate search for love. Deprived, frustrated, we suffer jealousy, we inflict cruelty. Haunted by our failures, we may end up with broken hearts.
And yet, love certainly has its lighter side. We eavesdrop on the conversations of men's and women's misunderstandings of each other, we consider some odd matches, and argue which sex is superior. The author relates his own Roman romances, interjects some aphorisms, and then gets straightened out by a sybil.
Love is volume three of ROMAN RUMINATIONS, "the psychology of the human as enculturated animal".
258 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 27, 2013
About the author
Norman Weeks
17 books70 followers Norman Weeks is an autobiographical and experiential writer.
An Autobiographical Letter is the straight-through narrative of a half-century of the author’s life, relating the experiences that fed into the writings. Its companion volume, Autobioscenes & Necrographies, extracts and expands some episodes from that life. The first book is the panorama, the second some snapshots.
Also derived from personal experiences are several books of travel narratives: Nature Norm’s North Woods, excursions into the natural world. Tropical Ecstasy, a nostalgia trip back to Brazil, to the town where the author lived as a Peace Corps Volunteer. And Two Weeks in Eternal Egypt, as a member of a tour group exploring the antiquity and sociology of that country.
Out of the author’s deep experience of Rome came the trilogy, Roman Ruminations, “The Psychology of the Human as Enculturated Animal”. Its three volumes are: Loneliness, Instinct, and Love. (The three volumes of the series also available separately.)
Matters of Life and Death contains further excursions into human psychology.
Culture-versus-Nature is a principal theme of Walden Contemporaneous, bringing the values of Thoreau’s book from 1845 Concord, Massachusetts to 2020 United States.
The author’s one major work of fiction, Symphony of Stories presents its characters in the cultural contexts of art, music, literature, and our technoculture.
Throughout his varied writings, Norman Weeks expresses a cosmopolitan appreciation of our world and the wide range of experiences possible in one human life.
Author website: www.independentauthornetwork.com/norm...
Norman Weeks may be reached at "Ask the Author" here on goodreads.
An Autobiographical Letter is the straight-through narrative of a half-century of the author’s life, relating the experiences that fed into the writings. Its companion volume, Autobioscenes & Necrographies, extracts and expands some episodes from that life. The first book is the panorama, the second some snapshots.
Also derived from personal experiences are several books of travel narratives: Nature Norm’s North Woods, excursions into the natural world. Tropical Ecstasy, a nostalgia trip back to Brazil, to the town where the author lived as a Peace Corps Volunteer. And Two Weeks in Eternal Egypt, as a member of a tour group exploring the antiquity and sociology of that country.
Out of the author’s deep experience of Rome came the trilogy, Roman Ruminations, “The Psychology of the Human as Enculturated Animal”. Its three volumes are: Loneliness, Instinct, and Love. (The three volumes of the series also available separately.)
Matters of Life and Death contains further excursions into human psychology.
Culture-versus-Nature is a principal theme of Walden Contemporaneous, bringing the values of Thoreau’s book from 1845 Concord, Massachusetts to 2020 United States.
The author’s one major work of fiction, Symphony of Stories presents its characters in the cultural contexts of art, music, literature, and our technoculture.
Throughout his varied writings, Norman Weeks expresses a cosmopolitan appreciation of our world and the wide range of experiences possible in one human life.
Author website: www.independentauthornetwork.com/norm...
Norman Weeks may be reached at "Ask the Author" here on goodreads.
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