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Ackerman Explores Love in the Details

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940720
Author:Steve Silk

A Natural History of Love By Diane Ackerman. Random House. $23.

`How do I love thee?" asked Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "Let me count the ways."

But here's a better idea: Let Diane Ackerman number the myriad forms of what she calls "the great intangible."

Musing on this most mysterious, powerful and lofty of feelings, Ackerman writes of forcing love, "the white light of emotion," through the prism of inquiry. Like any beam of white light hitting a wedge of glass, Ackerman splits ideas about love into a colorful spectrum.

Ackerman pursues them all - from Greek myth, Egyptian history and ...

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