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On marriage
Alain de Botton muses on why a bookish life is a poor preparation for marriage. He also reflects on why a typical love story in Western literature is usually nothing of the sort.
Alain de Botton muses on why a bookish life is a poor preparation for marriage! He says Western literature's obsession with unrequited love means the average love story is of help only to the lovelorn. And he argues that the blandness of the word marriage hides a "welter of intensity and depth that put to shame the most passionate works of literature".
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
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Sun 13 Feb 2011
08:50
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