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On marriage

Alain de Botton muses on why a bookish life is a poor preparation for marriage!

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".

10 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 Feb 2011 22:50GMT

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  • Sun 13 Feb 2011 01:32GMT
  • Sun 13 Feb 2011 11:32GMT
  • Sun 13 Feb 2011 22:50GMT