Love Neolithic Style or Eros Rigor Mortis

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Even when I think of this as involving a romance - the moment they were discovered, the young lovers drank poison - I still see "they died very young for no good reason" instead of "oh, they were in love!"

Aye, but isn't that what Romeo and Juliet is all about - a senseless death of two young lovers - but it was the only way to preserve love's first blush. How dull the story would become if we took it through marriage, kids, divorce, public drunkenness, depression, reckless behavior, and a slow death brought on by a chronic and debilitating illness.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Aye, but isn't that what Romeo and Juliet is all about - a senseless death of two young lovers - but it was the only way to preserve love's first blush. How dull the story would become if we took it through marriage, kids, divorce, public drunkenness, depression, reckless behavior, and a slow death brought on by a chronic and debilitating illness.

Heh, don't get me wrong, no WAY I'd say that R&J is a bad story. I love it, actually. You're right about all that. I just mean to say that there are a billion other possibilities, and I love that.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Aye, but isn't that what Romeo and Juliet is all about - a senseless death of two young lovers - but it was the only way to preserve love's first blush. How dull the story would become if we took it through marriage, kids, divorce, public drunkenness, depression, reckless behavior, and a slow death brought on by a chronic and debilitating illness.

Merry Wives of Windsor is a fairly approving look at stable marriages. There are a lot of dangerous and destabilizing passions at work in Romeo and Juliet, and I think Shakespeare would not exempt youthful lust, love at first sight, etc. from that view, even if he was in love with Gwyneth Paltrow when he wrote it.

As for the corpses, I vote for buried alive.