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- From: dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: just wondering...
- Keywords: friends,love
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:16:09 GMT
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- In article <41112@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ph2sct@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Dzu Nguyen) writes:
- > what is it that makes someone become interested in one of
- >their friends? is it lonliness? is it seeing them from a different
- >perspective that they did not see them in before? and how can this
- >interest turn into love? does the spark subside or does it continue
- >to grow?
-
- It's obvious:
-
- familiarity * lots = warm-fuzzies;
- warm-fuzzies + magic = fall in love.
-
- Doesn't even need a call to the appearance parameter! :-)
-
- Ah, you've spotted the bit where it goes "and then something clever
- happens here" -- the 'magic' bit. Well, that bit's still a bit mysterious,
- but I'm sure there is plenty of circumstantial evidence such as extra-
- lonely feelings, seeing victim in new light, etc.
-
- Note that the above algorithm appears to be the most favoured on a.r, as
- far as I can see. Thus it appears entirely "normal" (if a.r is a "normal"
- sample! :-)).
-
- All I know is that I keep doing it the wrong way round -- I fall in love
- first, then become friends. This is bad news as to date I'm not in love
- with anyone and (thus?) have few friends! :-\
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