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2. 4 is trivially true, 3 is the compelling metaphor
3. craving, longing, desire, discomfort, overwhelming compulsion
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7. this one has special double meaning for me: yes it is warm and comforting and enveloping and all consuming, but i also frequently avoid it all costs. a lot of splitting and contextual dependence. both the pinnacle of pleasure and an overwhelming, inescapable, terrorizing force.
8. weak question imo. kitchen is dumb lmao, hands is meh, eyes are complex, but i don't like looking at them. vulnerable and pretty, but the most important feelings of love happen when i'm not in eyesight. implicit, distance, one-sided, lack of recognition.
heart is weak, but the least weak
love is deeply physiological, embodied. constant convulsing perpetual motion, until it sputters out or erupts in a flash.
9. ignoring the prompt, i think this option has been the most resonant to my experience
10. i like the extremes here, and think that both are genuine options. in passionate affectionate moments this is a sentiment i have affinity with. but again the options are kinda weak here
violent ambivalence. simultaneously the most natural, life-sustaining thing in the world and yet the most confusing, alienating, frustrating, arduously difficult task requiring constant purposeful maintenance.
reminder to myself and anyone reading that this metaphor is one among many - and although this was clearly a resonant and an inciting metaphor for me, there are glaring gaps in its coverage (particularly on the more positive end of things).
Oh and it’s worth saying it explicitly: love as hunger fits for me because I often enjoy the masturbatory turmoil of the state of being itself, the pain of the unresolved tension, and the solitary reflection on its significance more than the implicit teleology of the concepts.
In other words: I hate food but love hunger; I hate people but love love.