Love: A Zero Sum Game?

[Paul-Michel]

Sometimes, the more you love something, the more you hate everything else.

If not hate, you might have no love left, as all our emotions are finite.

My problem is that I listen regularly to:

Bruckner 7
Bruckner 8
Cavalleria Rusticana
Parsifal
Beethoven 7
Sibelius 4

And very little else.

I have no energy left; the more I love them, the more disregarding I am of everything else. I can't seem to help it.

[MN Dave]

Soon you will tire of them and look upon them with disgust.

[karlhenning]

Especially Parsifal 

[Don]

Sometimes, the more you love something, the more you hate everything else.

If not hate, you might have no love left, as all our emotions are finite.

My problem is that I listen regularly to:

Bruckner 7
Bruckner 8
Cavalleria Rusticana
Parsifal
Beethoven 7
Sibelius 4

And very little else.

I have no energy left; the more I love them, the more disregarding I am of everything else. I can't seem to help it.

That's the limited love theory, and it's a bunch of crap.

[karlhenning]

That's the limited love theory, and it's a bunch of crap.

Hear, hear.

[BachQ]

all our emotions are finite.

Does anyone else buy into this logic? 

[MN Dave]

Does anyone else buy into this logic? 

I second that emotion.

[BachQ]

I second that emotion.

Ordinarily, I would respond to this, but all of my emotions were used up in my previous post, and I have none left over for this post ........

[MN Dave]

Ordinarily, I would respond to this, but all of my emotions were used up in my previous post, and I have none left over for this post ........

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Ordinarily, I would respond to this, but all of my emotions were used up in my previous post, and I have none left over for this post ........

[Wanderer]

And very little else.

I'm curious as to what these might be.


Dm, what's this place in your avatar? 

[The new erato]

, as all our emotions are finite.

I don't think so. And overexposure to somethings usually ends up in ennui.

The more i like/love a piece of art, the more I need to know what came before/after it, what influenced it, what other artists contemporaneous (? - difficult word, please enlighten me you native Englishspeakers) were doing, etc.

I'm very easily sidetracked.

[Paul-Michel]

I don't think so. And overexposure to somethings usually ends up in ennui.

The more i like/love a piece of art, the more I need to know what came before/after it, what influenced it, what other artists contemporaceous (? - difficult word, please enlighten me you native Englishspeakers) were doing, etc.

I'm very easily sidetracked.

Yes, I know what you mean Erato.

However, if you consider artistic development as a whole, that is, intellectual development and not individual artists, I think it is then analogous to watching a director's old film to see how his ideas first developed, before they reached their peak in a later effort.

I do not doubt that it is interesting, but it is most likely that you will return to the magnum opus. The same for music, art, and probably anything else.

Don, Karl: If love is not finite, why are you monogamous?

finally, if you love tonality, and Wagner took it as far as it can go, why bother with anything else? There is no doubt that some classical music is objectively better than others.

[Renfield]

Don, Karl: If love is not finite, why are you monogamous?

finally, if you love tonality, and Wagner took it as far as it can go, why bother with anything else? There is no doubt that some classical music is objectively better than others.

I will for the moment ignore (or rather not comment on) your logic. But I will note that regardless, you are missing their point.


You know what? No, I can't not comment: what about semantics? Thrown out the window? Specificity?

Do you presume to think philosophically,  or is it me reading more into your aphorisms than they merit?

If love might be limited, nerve certainly seems like it isn't: here's an aphorism for you, sir.

[Paul-Michel]

I will for the moment ignore (or rather not comment on) your logic. But I will note that regardless, you are missing their point.


You know what? No, I can't not comment: what about semantics? Thrown out the window? Specificity?

Do you presume to think philosophically,  or is it me reading more into your aphorisms than they merit?

If love might be limited, nerve certainly seems like it isn't: here's an aphorism for you, sir.

Nonsensical and boring.

[prémont]

all our emotions are finite.

Talk for yourself.

My problem is that I listen regularly to:




Parsifal




And very little else.

There is a big problem. 

[Renfield]

Nonsensical and boring.

Aphoristic and arrogant.

You win?

[Don]

Don, Karl: If love is not finite, why are you monogamous?

A much better issue to look at would be having children.  Can you love only your first child?  What about couples who have, say, 8 children?  Paul-Michel has decided to go with his limited love theory; that's a choice he's made that he can change at any time when he wakes up to reality.

[71 dB]

Sometimes, the more you love something, the more you hate everything else.

If not hate, you might have no love left, as all our emotions are finite.

My problem is that I listen regularly to:

Bruckner 7
Bruckner 8
Cavalleria Rusticana
Parsifal
Beethoven 7
Sibelius 4

And very little else.

I have no energy left; the more I love them, the more disregarding I am of everything else. I can't seem to help it.

Seems very limited to me. I'd like to listen to Parsifal but I don't have any recording of it.

[marvinbrown]

Sometimes, the more you love something, the more you hate everything else.

If not hate, you might have no love left, as all our emotions are finite.

My problem is that I listen regularly to:

Bruckner 7
Bruckner 8
Cavalleria Rusticana
Parsifal
Beethoven 7
Sibelius 4

And very little else.

I have no energy left; the more I love them, the more disregarding I am of everything else. I can't seem to help it.

  Very little else    . 

Those are some fine compositions but as far as I am concerned Beethoven's 3rd,5th, and 9th Symphonies are NOT to be missed and personally I prefer them (they are better  ) than the 7th Symphony.

  Parsifal is a masterpiece, I'll grant you that! After all look at my avatar  0:).  That said Tristan und Isolde and the Ring Cycle are NOT to be missed and I prefer them (they are better  )  than Parsifal.

  Bruckner's 7th and 8th are GREAT.  Although I wouldn't want to be without the the 5th, 9th and the Nullte Symphonies.

  Paul-Michel don't be afraid to branch out a bit.  I think you'll find that there are a lot of masterpieces out there that deserve your full attention as well.

  71dB if you are looking for GREAT recording of Parsifal try this:

 

  marvin