Tuesday, February 12, 2008

3 Quarks Daily has utterly stolen my heart with their Valentine's Day celebration of things that might belong in Berlin's Museum of Broken Relationships. The best is the reminder of this graffiti on the walls of Pompei:

Quisquis amat valeat,
Pereat qui nescit amare,
Bis tanto pereat, quisquis amare vetat.


(Greetings to those who love,
Cursed be those who do not love,
Doubly cursed be those who forbid love.)

Just go read the whole thing, it almost made me cry.

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