Love! Applicable to deities, people, life, sports, and pizza. Featuring a range of vibrant states, including: attraction, affection, infatuation, passion, divinity, attachment, bliss, contentment, compulsion, companionship, heartache, torment, hysteria, madness, and murder. So what are we really talking about? It’s as if we’ve named every creature after a horse, but have lost sight of the actual horse. If there even is an actual horse. Granted, we simply mean to say that love drives all those states, but we never identify that driver. Many states we attribute to love are extreme crossovers from other species of condition.
Take for example Carl Tanzler von Cosel, the Dresden-born radiographer who was said to have experienced visions as a child. Among them was one of a dark-haired woman who he knew was destined to become the love of his life. After emigrating to the United States with his family, Tanzler settled in Florida, where at one point he
