You've had an effect on my life.
We are just children when it comes to love and lust. These things (which I think are the same) revert us to the helpless, dependent state of infancy. Sappho said that love was γλυκυπικρον, sweetbitter: γλυκυ which gives us "glucose", raw energy, and πικρον, recalling "piquant" or the pica, the sting or bite of the picador: picking, unpicking; biting, the biter bit. In the same fragment, she calls Love a "loosener of limbs".…