{"product_id":"2940148768616","title":"Love","description":"The culture of the Mediterranean is an erotic one, all sensual love, from food to art. Even Mediterranean religion and philosophy are erotic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRome is the supreme shrine of the Christian love-cult. In Rome, we venture upon excursions into the artifacts of Christian history and into the contemporary practices of Christian love devotion. What are morality and sanctity, love-style?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven if we have no use for either religion or philosophy, there should be, at least, a little Mediterranean art in our living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever our pretensions to culture, we are, deep down, just naked animals, and naked in our needs, one of which is love. Needy, we want romance, we are Romantics. We drift into fantasies and illusions in our desperate search for love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeprived, frustrated, we suffer jealousy, we inflict cruelty. Haunted by our failures, we may end up with broken hearts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet, love certainly has its lighter side. We eavesdrop on the conversations of men's and women's misunderstandings of each other, we consider odd matches, and argue which sex is superior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author relates his own Roman romances, interjects some aphorisms, and then gets straightened out by a Sybil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill naked in our needs, we want, not the examined life, but the shared life. Love is the loyalty in spite of everything. It is acceptance, affirmation, and the bliss of intimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEros, our Mediterranean angel, guides us past sex to love and marriage, with home and family. Our needs met, we find fulfillment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLOVE is volume three of the trilogy, ROMAN RUMINATIONS, \"the psychology of the human as an enculturated animal\".","brand":"Norman Weeks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111671120112,"sku":"2940148768616","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148768616_p0.jpg?v=1763708154","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148768616","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}