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masterofthecygnetsignet · 19 days ago

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"Soft romanticism equates somewhat to sentimentality, being maudlin, puppy-dog eyes, gazing at your lover over candlelight, hallmark cards, sweetness, baby talk, cuddliness, cute talk and so on. [...] Hard romanticism equates to putting your life on the line, living on the edge of death, intensifying experience to the utmost to feel alive, tempting death, tempting love, spitting in the face of love."

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#uncategorized #matters of the heart #romantic #romanticism #the dichotomy!#Personally I like hard romanticism because it's almost never replicated in real life I think #And so we wonder:#What ever happened to the stuff of myths? The grand sacrificial gestures?#Yet I think the real answer is that they never were #that almost every time we see hard romanticism #it's only a depiction.#Think:#orpheus and eurydice #Meanwhile #soft romanticism can seem performative and conveniently non-committal by comparison because it's so...#overwhelmingly modern and easily executed.

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