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Electricity -
Energy Exchanges
Electricity
I like girls,
She like boys.
I like working,
She likes toys.
I like reading,
She likes sports.
I like formal,
She likes sports.
I'm a Catholic,
She's a Jew.
I'm a square,
She's so cool.
Pschology,
Or history,
Technology,
Or mystery.
On every subject,
We disagree.
'Cept I love her,
And she loves me!
by Lou Rose
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Energy Exchanges
Apparently anomalous energy exchanges
between physically separate bodies:
findings, conclusions, and a proposal for further research
by Dr. Valentin D'Amour, Dept. of Psychophysiology,
Ecole Aardenockx, 18018 Bisoux-en-Bouche (Cher), France
(c/o Peter Desmond)
| Abstract |
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The writer here sets forth a law
concerning ... eh! je ne sais quoi.
No matter. In this great advance
priority must go to France. |
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| Background |
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Friendship, love, attraction, sex --
these questions have too long been vexed.
Starting in the ancient past,
the literature has swollen vast,
and daily grows. This rapid sketch
will point out highlights. Then I'll kvetch. |
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| Literature Review |
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Ovid's work remains a classic,
as does that of Sade (and Masoch).
Stendhal (1822)
makes many points that still are true.
Foucault cannot be ignored.
D. H. Lawrence leaves me bored. |
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| Critique |
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All these works are data based
for, of the authors, none was chaste.
Sadly, though, we do not find
their subjects randomly assigned.
(A fault I hope can be excused --
in my work, no control was used.)
Although they do their best to measure
the correlates of love and pleasure,
none of these admitted amateurs
multiply-regresses his parameters.
Besides, their talk of "chemistry"
is unscientific to a high degree. |
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| Findings |
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But now I sing -- hark ye who list! --
the research of a scientist.
When I near total entropy
the thought of you occurs to me.
No measurable change in mass
results, and no time seems to pass.
And yet, before my heart can thump
I feel a more than quantum jump
of energy. At lightning rate
I enter an excited state. |
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| Technical Notes |
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1. This force, or signal, keeps its strength
whatever the transmission's length.
What's more, it does not meet resistance
(i.e., no variance over distance).
Conversely, when you're very close
I never suffer overdose.
2. Altered affects are observed.
These fall along no normal curve,
but range from "fond" to "beatific."
3. Intercorporeally specific:
results cannot be replicated
when someone else is contemplated.
(Bodies I've known were brought to mind
and binary values were assigned.
It's you for whom I get the hots;
you're number one. The rest are noughts.) |
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| Discussion |
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How startling an anomaly!
In physics and in chemistry
all bodies are equivalent.
And does this force not represent
a rather basic violation
of several laws of conservation? |
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| Conclusion |
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Although I must admit I think
the pheromone-to-neuron link
should not be utterly dismissed,
it is my main hypothesis
that this mysterious force is Love.
My efforts so far seem to prove
that Love can be a source of free,
renewable, safe energy.
The subject merits more research.
Let's set a date and book a church. |
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| About The Author |
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Dr. D'Amour's expertise
is in nonlethal STDs.
His lab work at Ecole Aardenockx
has focused on the orgone box.
Since he won his tenured chair
he doesn't teach, and doesn't care. |
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| Reprints |
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Reprints cannot be released
until our budget is increased. |
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| References |
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Foucault, Michel.
Histoire de la sexualite (1976-84).
Lawrence, David Herbert.
Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1921).
Ovidius Naso, Publius.
Ars Amatoria (A.D. 1), Remedia Amoris (A.D. 2?).
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von.
Venus im Pelz (1870).
Sade, D. A. F. (Marquis de).
Philosophie dans le boudoir (1793), Les crimes de l'amour (1800).
Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle).
De l'amour (1822). |
by Peter Desmond
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