Is book love, too, inspired by chemical receptors in our brains? Do these receptors react to words and stories as hormones react to the scent of a potential lover passing on the street? Maybe it is something like pheromones that seep from the pages of our current reads and turn our heads toward the next passionate fling.
I’ve just discovered Penelope Fitzgerald. What I mean to say is that I discovered A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book, then her essays On Histories and Stories, which led me to Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel The Blue Flower. And now I am in love.
Is book love, too, inspired by chemical receptors in our brains? Do these receptors react to words and stories as hormones react to the scent of a potential lover passing on the street? Maybe it is something like pheromones that seep from the pages of our current reads and turn our heads toward the next passionate fling.
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Abigail
9/8/2010 12:15:41 am
I loved your essay on Nana, and I identify with your fashionably late essay. Great site!
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Mary
9/28/2010 01:16:10 pm
Thanks Abigail!
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