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'LOVE IS BLIND'? 'Love is blind'? what nonsense! then how come we have 'love at first sight'? Shakespeare in one sentence had hoodwinked us since 1616 true, he wrote great drama and poetry but we must note he didn't study medicine nor opthalmology and mind you we are living in the 21st century with all the science and technology surely it would be the greatest folly to just quote the bard's cliche blindly the eyes have it ask the ophthalmologist without the eyes the lover would not see beauty and as a corollary how could you love somebody if in the first instance you were blind id est--you couldn't see! careful, so careful we must all be to differentiate between reality and the ranting of silly poetry if this myth were to perpetuate nilly-willy mankind would look really silly that would look good not even to the slightest degree and one more thing please bear with me and this is the bard's secret history he had chancre--venereal ulcer for which he received treatment could he have written 'Love is blind' being affected by that odious malady? London's brothels he did visit frequently when he was away from Stratford-upon-Avon he drank a lot too--there is ample evidence he also had anasarca (oh mercy!) result of mercury-related membranous nephropathy ( we shall not defile him further- but his alopecia was due to treatment of mercury for his syphilis---what a medical litany!) in conclusion we could somehow see that England's greatest writer was not as bright as he had been taken to be.
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 10:25 PM UTC
'LOVE IS BLIND'?
'LOVE IS BLIND'? 'Love is blind'? what nonsense! then how come we have 'love at first sight'? Shakespeare in one sentence had hoodwinked us since 1616 true, he wrote great drama and poetry but we must note he didn't study medicine nor opthalmology and mind you we are living in the 21st century with all the science and technology surely it would be the greatest folly to just quote the bard's cliche blindly the eyes have it ask the ophthalmologist without the eyes the lover would not see beauty and as a corollary how could you love somebody if in the first instance you were blind id est--you couldn't see! careful, so careful we must all be to differentiate between reality and the ranting of silly poetry if this myth were to perpetuate nilly-willy mankind would look really silly that would look good not even to the slightest degree and one more thing please bear with me and this is the bard's secret history he had chancre--venereal ulcer for which he received treatment could he have written 'Love is blind' being affected by that odious malady? London's brothels he did visit frequently when he was away from Stratford-upon-Avon he drank a lot too--there is ample evidence he also had anasarca (oh mercy!) result of mercury-related membranous nephropathy ( we shall not defile him further- but his alopecia was due to treatment of mercury for his syphilis---what a medical litany!) in conclusion we could somehow see that England's greatest writer was not as bright as he had been taken to be.
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 10:25 PM UTC
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