{"id":130,"date":"2024-10-21T09:39:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/mme-el\/?p=130"},"modified":"2024-10-21T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:39:31","slug":"the-quest-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/mme-el\/the-quest-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quest of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">I<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">f man the rational being can be kept under control by the law <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ruling Society, man the natural being, physically equipped <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">as they are, cannot be inactivated, nature being stronger as <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">everyone knows and the other sex of lifelong attraction. The <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">law of society does achieve that the quest for Love must be <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">carried out clandestinely. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The human being, man and woman, is driven by his physical <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">equipment against law and reason, forced by nature to react <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">to each other and to seek satisfaction.<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">It would be a matter of reaching the highest possible <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">degree of satisfaction, the point where the full potential of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Love is revealed. This is the end of the quest, for all is now <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">known. There are no grounds any more on which to carry on <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">searching, the mystery being solved. Satisfied once and for all <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and never again. Love has come not to a provisional, but to its <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">definite end.<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The quest for Love<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"7\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000074d5bc5d0000000045c5109b_128\"><a title=\"The Quest of Love, an age-old world theme, cf.Tristan legend, the Troubadours and others. Cf : Tristan et Iseult, Tristan &amp; Isolt, Tristan und Isolde (fr,en, de) by Claude d\u2019Esplas \u2013 Ubersetzung : Dagmar Coward Kuschke \u2013 adgparis.com\" role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000074d5bc5d0000000045c5109b_128\">7<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000074d5bc5d0000000045c5109b_128\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"tooltip\" data-mfn=\"7\">The Quest of Love, an age-old world theme, cf.Tristan legend, the Troubadours and others. Cf : Tristan et Iseult, Tristan &amp; Isolt, Tristan und Isolde (fr,en, de) by Claude d\u2019Esplas \u2013 Ubersetzung : Dagmar Coward Kuschke \u2013 adgparis.com<\/span><\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">by man is in reality the quest for man by <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Love<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">.<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">It is Love which seeks out man, not the other way round.<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">While Love is the driving power, man is the object who is free <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">to the extent that he can rationalize past experience, decide <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">what he wants and what not and have another go.<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">What he gets in the end will be Love\u2019s unknown doing beyond <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">any volition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Three films about love in Cannes in successive years, all <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">French:<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">one about love between man and woman in old age,<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">one about love between two young women,<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">one about love between brother and sister : a true story of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the seventeenth century, the protagonists officially beheaded <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for their crime, royal pardon being prevented by the Church.<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">French Ice-Dancers win world championships in Milan for <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the third time with the help of \u2018synchronisation millim\u00e9tr\u00e9e <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">tout en \u00e9voluant tr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s l\u2019un de l\u2019autre\u2019 \u2013 \u2018synchronization to <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the millimetre while moving in close togetherness\u2019, a display <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of breath-taking harmony. What would Beethoven say to this <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">interpretation of the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Moonlight<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">sonata?<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The other day Mme El, looking me up and down in my light <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">colourful summer wear which she obviously liked, said \u2018your <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">husband must be \u2018fou\u2019, \u2018crazy about you\u2019. Some people have a <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">one-track mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"modern-footnotes-list \">\n<li>7\n<div>The Quest of Love, an age-old world theme, cf.Tristan legend, the Troubadours and others. Cf : Tristan et Iseult, Tristan &amp; Isolt, Tristan und Isolde (fr,en, de) by Claude d\u2019Esplas \u2013 Ubersetzung : Dagmar Coward Kuschke \u2013 adgparis.com<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If man the rational being can be kept under control by the law ruling Society, man the natural being, physically equipped as they are, cannot be inactivated, nature being stronger as everyone knows and the other sex of lifelong attraction. 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