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"The change in usage [from last names to first names], whatever one thinks of it, is symptomatic of a general breakdown of the boundaries between public and private life, between formal and familiar, between grown-up and childish, between high and low, refined and vulgar, sacred and profane. This leveling of boundaries is itself entirely American..."

"...intimate speech is not a means of exchanging information but rather of disclosing souls, of revealing who we are (also to ourselves) by eliciting the blossoming self-revelation of a friend or beloved."

"...as one can fully see only at the end, her virginity is in the service of satisfying her own erotic longings, but only with someone who is worthy of being their object and, looking ahead to marriage, of satisfying them long-term."

"Once female modesty became a first casualty of the sexual revolution, even women eager for marriage lost their greatest power to hold and to discipline their prospective mates. For it is a woman's refusal of sexual importunings, coupled with hints or promises of later gratification, that is generally a necessary condition of transforming a man's lust into love."

"Anyone who seriously contemplates the present scene is - or should be - filled with profound sadness, all the more so if he or she knows the profound satisfactions of a successful marriage."
From section entitled, Recent Obstacles to Courtship

Fascinating. Most interesting book I've read this semester, and I'm not even done. While I may not entirely agree with everything, I recognize that I ought to think about everything I have ever thought and he has ever said within these pages to that end. I have great respect for this man and this book. He is an incredible author as well. The book would be dry if not for his Supreme Wit.

For Honors Colloquium, I have read the Foreword, the Introduction, and chapters 1, 2, 3, & 14. I aim to finish the book when I am not bedeviled by assignments on schedules marching two-by-two. 🙃

A Honors Colloquium read - we have only been assigned select chapters and sections, but this is a book I want to consume cover to cover when I am not otherwise employed by the distraction of class, alas.

So far, we have read the Foreword, Introduction, and chapters 1, 2, 3, & 14.