From McSweeney's: love poems enhanced by 21st century research findings:
"How do I produce dopamine upon detecting your pheromones? Let me count the ways ..." p. 37
"I shall not compare thee to a summer's day, given the imprecision of nonliteral, subjective representations of the natural world ..." p. 47
"Let me not to the
marriage of true minds admit that the dramatic increase in the Western
male's lifespan from 1950 to the present has rendered superfluous the
average 25.7 years of marital cohabitation that must be negotiated
post-child-rearing, child-rearing being the primary evolutionary
impetus behind the persistence of monogamous tendencies in frontal-lobe
circuitry ..."
"Love is patient. Love stimulates mammalian brain attributes associated with care-giving and species survival ..." p. 80
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