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=**The American //Romantic//**=

//**Romanticism**//
 * [|Jean Harlow]**

"Then she stopped staring at the green chairs, at the delivery truck; she went to the movies instead. There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another-physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap... She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen."
 * -Toni Morrison****, 1993 __The Bluest Eye__**

"I ‘member one time I went to see Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. I fixed my hair up like I’d seen hers on a magazine. A part on the side, with one little curl on my forehead. It looked just like her. Well, almost just like… There I was, five months pregnant, trying to look like Jean Harlow, and a front tooth gone. Everything went then. Look like I just didn’t care no more after that. I let my hair go back, plaited it up, and settled down to just being ugly.”
 * -Toni Morrison, 1993 __The Bluest Eye__**

"Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!'"
 * -Thomas Parke D'Invilliers****, 2004** __**The Great Gatsby**__ **(Epigraph)**

[|Pepé La Pew]

//"Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee, Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums, Counts his nectars -alights, And is lost in balms!"//
 * Come Slowly**
 * -Emily Dickinson** **(1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.**

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 * __Atonement__**

//Part Three: Love XXXVII//
 * Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.**

LOVE is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.

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If you wait for me then I'll come for you Although I've traveled far I always hold a place for you in my heart If you think of me If you miss me once in awhile Then I'll return to you I'll return and fill that space in your heart Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you If you'll be waiting If you dream of me like I dream of you In a place that's warm and dark In a place where I can feel the beating of your heart
 * "The Promise"**

Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you If you'll be waiting I've longed for you and I have desired To see your face your smile To be with you wherever you are

Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you If you'll be waiting I've longed for you and I have desired To see your face, your smile To be with you wherever you are

Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you Please say you'll be waiting

Together again It would feel so good to be In your arms Where all my journeys end If you can make a promise If it's one that you can keep, I vow to come for you If you wait for me and say you'll hold A place for me in your heart. [|Tracy Chapman]

Reflection The "Promised" Land