Tuesday, September 21, 2010

"You're Reading That Book Too? Marry Me"

9/21/10.
Wall Street Journal writer Hannah Seligson turns a new page  on-line dating services.

She introduces her article referring to one of my favorite Woody Allen short stories (1974), "The Whore of Mensa,"  (where)Word Babcock hires an intellectual prostitute named Flossie, a Vassar student, who, for a price, will discuss Proust, Yates, Melville, or anything really." Flossie is especially talented about discussing the symbolism in Melville's "Moby Dick."

There are a growing number of sites that match people based on the books they read Ms. Seligson tells us.

Perhaps being on the same page or book gives some couples the hope of a match made in the library or  bookstore.

Yet relationships are full of mystery. We all know many couples who have so much in common that they can't stand each other and are aching  to split apart. This illusion of common interests sparking romance is fine until you recognize that marriage is made in our unconscious. And if you are lucky, reasons to make a life together will seep into consciousness. And if you are very lucky, you each will be able to stand each other over a life-time of for better or worse and in sickness or health.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703466704575490210959002350.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTThirdBucket

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