your instructor

the Inter-Galactic Information Matrix is replete with human
references to the term "Love"

and it would seem that this term holds the key to an
understanding of planet Earth's dominant, albeit primitive,
life form

at the outset it must be noted that "Love" is poorly defined
and exceedingly difficult to grasp -

difficult, it seems, even for the humans, themselves

definitions of "Love" are widely diverse, each contributing
little to our understanding;

however, by reviewing, comparing and contrasting these
limited defintions, a priliminary understanding of this elusive
concept may emerge

and so our task, in the current lesson, is to consider the
communications listed below, and for each -

1) note the context in which term "Love" appears;
2) speculate as to its intended meaning;
3) cross-reference it with preceding and subsequent usages;
4) seek to construct a meta-defintion that is greater than
the sum of its parts


Human Communications  Regarding  "Love"

- Love is a great beautifier

- Where love is, no room is too small

- Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside

- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

- Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and
touch and greet each other

- Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

- All you need is Love

- To love is to suffer

- Take away love and our earth is a tomb

- Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in
each other all along

- Love is friendship set on fire

- I love my mommy

- Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be
a secret

- All is fair in love and golf

- Love alone could waken love

- The eyes, those silent tongues of love

- Better to have loved a short man than never to
have loved a tall

- There is no fear in love

- Who loves, raves
 
- Love is like an itching in my heart, tearing it all apart;
just an itching in my heart, and baby, I can't scratch it

- To reason about love is to lose reason