Lovers In A Dangerous Time ( pt.2 )

…Lovers always live in a dangerous time. In any era and under most human conditions, love is itself a dangerous condition, a precarious existence, a coming of age of what Marcel Marceau called ”the immaturity of the good”.It is pure risk. Love is its own medium and its own message combined. The content is irrelevant as the medium is the message.

Alexa Davalos, Defiance

The danger of love lies in its disdain for materiality, for consumption, accumulation,calculation and others of the ”ation” family of values. and above all an absence of memory, an amnesia to the twin towers of human existence: work and the passage of time. All cornerstones of modern advanced societies and milestones for many of their own personal progress ( or millstones for others ). Its lightness over gravity and an eclipse of black light, a permanent solstice balancing on the edge of the universe.A cosmic tipsiness.

When your’e lovers in a dangerous time/sometimes you’re made to feel as if your loves a crime/nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight/got to kick at the darkness til’ it bleeds daylight/when you’re lovers in a dangerous time ( Bruce Coburn, 1984)

It could be considered that love is a divine spirit, a celestial visit, about which you can say nothing. Its the speechless an unexplained quality that makes it universal. This explosion of intense imagination that provides the eternal power of the thought.

Chagall, Birthday (1915)