{"id":1204,"date":"2018-09-17T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T00:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2018-09-17T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T00:52:04","slug":"my-love-for-you-makes-any-other-life-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2018\/09\/17\/my-love-for-you-makes-any-other-life-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"my love for you makes any other life a lie."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve hidden those words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one&#8217;s watching. They haven&#8217;t faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it&#8217;s not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me.&#8221; (99)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The repetition of the word\u00a0<em>you<\/em> in this passage gives insight to the mind of the narrator and how it revolves around this woman. Even when the author is talking about themself, they are incorporating Louise as a part of themself, (i.e.\u00a0<em>you\u00a0<\/em>are\u00a0<em>my<\/em> blood). Here the narrator is saying that they are in essence, her, and she is them. That she is a hidden jewel so precious and protected that she is apart of them, and that specifically her love alone fuels the narrator to feel this.<\/p>\n<p>This passage reflects on the question of why the measure of love is lost. I believe that at this particular moment the narrator would argue against that notion, as their soliloquy shows just how deep and intense the feeling of reciprocated love is. The narrator struggles to determine whether love is as confusing and unattainable as it has been most of their life, or if it is this \u00a0bright and shiny thing, the stuff of fairy tales. Although they have finally achieved reciprocal love, it has been at the expense of others happiness. \u00a0I think that is important to note because the narrator is blindsighted and living in their own world that only contains Louise. It is almost as though they lost touch of reality. Sometimes it seems that love borderlines infatuation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve hidden those words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one&#8217;s watching. They haven&#8217;t faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it&#8217;s not my own face I see. Your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2018\/09\/17\/my-love-for-you-makes-any-other-life-a-lie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">my love for you makes any other life a lie.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}