Labyrinth of Desire Author:Rosemary Sullivan There are so many sexy and fascinating questions that never occur to Rosemary Sullivan. She's doing aesthetic philosophy, very lite, thinking readers will fancy a bit of high-toned talk but then want short sentences and paragraphs, and short ideas. Well, that's putting thought as well as style on a starvation diet. — In one chapter, Sullivan brin... more »gs up love at first sight. Her own parents, she adds, married on the strength of it. But what's that all about, that recognition that occurs in life as often as in literature, and makes for long marriages as often as broken hearts? The Greeks thought of vision as a tactile sense. Your eyes can literally grope and enter me; I emit rays that enter your soul through your eyes. That's one rich subject. Another is the tension between fullness and lack, overflow and longing. Both metaphors describe sexual passion and do so in many cultures and periods. I would have loved to hear more about them. And then there is imagination and excess. We dream and conceive of much more than we do. So the most tantalizing fantasy is to imagine bodies harnessed to the mind's play, and then to try to make it real.« less