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

11. none of these were resonant 12. skipped

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.