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Letter: Love's mystery

Published 6 December 2003

From Kate Davis

It will not be a shock to learn that yet another of your readers is unable to share Keats’s belief in the power of science to “clip an angel’s wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line”, and “unweave a rainbow”. Yet your article on love brought this poem to mind (22 November, p 18).

As one having recently “fallen in love”, I had no desire to discover that this feeling derives not from the smooth charms of the guy pursuing me, but rather from the enthusiastic exertions of my right caudate nucleus and right ventral tegmentum.

London, UK

Issue no. 2424 published 6 December 2003

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