“People would never fall in love if they hadn’t heard love talked about.” Or read about it in books, we can assume. Which is all very well for Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and writer of maxims, to say – but is much harder to live by. Yes, perhaps, in the postmodern sense love is just a construct, cobbled together from bits of old Arthurian romances and BBC Jane Austen adaptations. But try telling that to your New Year’s Eve date and see how far it gets you. If love is just a fantasy, what does the fantasy of today say about love?
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Damien Walter 
Odd, but nice, to see Ovid and Pratchett in the same sentence.
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Same tradition if you ask me.
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