Winding the Clock 



Love itself, which after all is the great- 

 est thing in all the world, is always 

 pictured by a Cupid equipped for 

 flight. I take exception though to 

 that. The idea is of Hellenic origin, 

 developed and adopted by the Latin 

 races. The passion-dominated peoples 

 of Aegean and Mediterranean shores 

 themselves supply historic instances of 

 devotion that rose above ambition and 

 even death itself. Hero and Leander, 

 Juliet and her Romeo, Egypt and Mark 

 Antony, Heloise and Abelard — a thou- 

 sand such immortalized in song and 

 story, in tragedy and Grand Opera, on 

 canvas and in marble. 



The French have a saying "L' amitie 

 est I'amour sans ailes" — friendship is 

 Love without wings; but I have an 

 idea that the generally accepted con- 

 cept is based upon the fact that in a 

 very large number of instances that 

 which leads to Gretna Green or the 

 nearest licensing station is not real 

 love at all. The genuine, lasting article 

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