love, n.:
When you don't want someone too close--because you're very sensitive
to pleasure.
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
-- Samuel Goldwyn
And they mainly want to teach them not to question, not to imagine,
but to be obedient and behave well so that they can hold them forever as
children to their bosom as the second millennium lurches toward its
panicky close.
-- Jerome Stern