Who would dream of being against love? No one.

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Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling\nforce, with vast power over our thoughts and life\ndecisions.

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But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity\nof opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement\nwill be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible?\nConsider that the most powerful organized religions produce the\noccasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred\ncows find their butchers. Except for love.

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Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is\ndesigned to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device\nplaced under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not\nseverely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few\nconvictions.

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From the Trade Paperback edition.

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