Session 3 24.261 Philosophy of Love in the Western World
a little fuzzy but um let me start it please this way um Adriana is going to give a presentation today before that I want to correct my Mis quotation from the short poem by darthy Parker that I mentioned last week uh you'll remember it when I finished reading you the authentic version which reads oh life is a glorious cycle of song A medley of extemporanea and love is a thing that can never go wrong and I am Maria of Romania that's what I was trying to remember um and as I mentioned Maria of Romania was the queen of that country at that time so you get the idea that the speaker is a little uh confused in her mind you remember the context When U Veronica was talking about love uh which can have various virtues without at the moment discussing all of the drawbacks all right today Adriana is going to take over so What why don't you start now and do you mind being interrupted or not no not at all that applies to the rest of you as well as me okay so we read two ch...