Perhaps I ought to let this go, pass on with nothing to say. And yet, the scene sketched here is cut diamond-like, an illustration of the paradox of our being. Homo sapiens is a troubled and a magnificent animal. I invite you to mindfully read, to consider…

Love
wishes to spare the other
to whom it devotes itself
any feeling of strangeness:

as a consequence it is
permeated with disguise and simulation;
it keeps on deceiving continuously,

and feigns an equality
which in reality
does not
exist.

And all this is done
so instinctively
that women who love
deny this simulation and constant tender trickery,
and have even the audacity to assert that love equalizes
(in other words that it performs a miracle)!

This phenomenon is a simple matter
if one of the two permits
himself or herself to be loved,
and does not deem it necessary
to feign, but leaves this to the other.

No drama, however,
could offer a more intricate and confused instance
than when both persons
are passionately in love with one another;
for in this case
both are anxious to surrender
and to endeavor to conform to the other,

and finally they are both at a loss
to know what to imitate and what to feign.

The beautiful madness
of this spectacle
is too good for this world,

and too subtle for human eyes.

The Dawn of Day, by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy, aphorism 532

According to Nietzsche it is as if two sides simultaneously flying a white flag of surrender submit, offering anything, or better, everything to the other side… Each opponent wills to ‘change sides’ to accede to the other: in imagination, each him/herself is a mirror image facing the other…

A beautiful madness indeed! Nietzsche himself is uncompromising in the affirmation of ‘difference’. It is the friction of lack, of deficit, that is a ghost which haunts the spectrum of desire animating and driving each of us. A raw fact of the relationship between two of us, is our stark and sharp-edged differences. (She likes opera, but I favor Rock’n Roll.)

What matters most are the distinct differences. Equality is illusion…

Each offers what the other lacks.

Love, – a beautiful madness too good for this world.

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This tune illustrates the point, and as music always does, offers a refuge for our emotions. Enjoy! What About Love by Heart.