Love and Marriage
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essentialsaltesI spent some time today working on a marriage ceremony for my step-brother. The usual fallback of the unoriginal is plagiarism, so I cobbled things together from here and there. While hunting down quotes, I found this one, which adequately represents my feelings, but probably don't belong in a wedding ceremony:
Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family.
O.C. Ogilvie
It's also hard to improve on Lord Byron: "I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."
In a more acceptable vein, there's Rilke:
"For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Wilde, of course, was a sentimental old fool: "It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they're alone."
Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family.
O.C. Ogilvie
It's also hard to improve on Lord Byron: "I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."
In a more acceptable vein, there's Rilke:
"For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Wilde, of course, was a sentimental old fool: "It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they're alone."
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Date: 2004-08-26 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-26 07:35 pm (UTC)LOVE, n.
A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
MARRIAGE, n.
The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Donovan