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) points out that love\u2019s wound is not only the result of failed love or love\u2019s absence, but inherent in love itself: \u201cAs the lover caresses his beloved\u2019s hair and gazes into her eyes and murmurs the sweet nothings of desire into her ear he wounds her by provoking in her an intensity of delight and desire that she knows, viscerally and bone-deep, he cannot satisfy. He, in desiring and delighting in her, knows the same about her. What she provokes in him exceeds what she can given him: the gift of being a lover provided by being beloved is so far in excess of what its giver and recipient are that the gift is both ludicrous . . . and agonizing at the same time.\u201d <\/p>\n There are various attempts to escape the wound: Stoic refusal of love, hedonistic intensification that turns Sadean, but \u201cthat is a game of diminishing returns that ends in the incapacity for love.\u201d The wounds have to be accepted and embraced, and Christians do this because \u201cwe know what love\u2019s wounds figure.\u201d The wound inside human love \u201cfigures and participates in the wounded mutual love of the Lord for his Israel-church, and of the Lord and for Mary.\u201d The wounds are \u201creal and unavoidable\u201d yet Christians believe \u201cthey carry with them a promise of eventual healing.\u201d So, \u201cthe verses under consideration here move at once from wound to beauty.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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