U.S. Literature Description
Course Description by Epigraph
“A study of important ideas and problems as they are reflected in the world’s literature” (Pacific Catalogue 79).
-Love is lust "plus the ordeal of civility." (Freud)
-"The intense yearning which lovers have toward each other does not appear to be the desire for sexual intercourse, but for something else which the soul of each desires and cannot tell, of which they have only a dark and doubtful presentiment." (Plato/Aristophanes)
-"There are many people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of." (La Rochefoucauld)
-"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else." (William Faulkner)
-Love "is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of consciousness." (Ortega y Gasset)
-Love is "the most wonderful product of ten million years of evolution." (Konrad Lorenz)
-"Love is." (Gertrude Stein)
-"There are so many sorts of love that one does not know where to seek a definition of it." (Voltaire)