![]() Of course we know how this happens: the moist air of the mine is filled with tiny salt particles which attach themselves to whatever is left in there long enough. It doesn’t matter what kind of twig you use, the result is always the same. ![]() Which emerges utterly transformed – covered in sparkling crystals it looks amazing. Two or three months later they return and extract the twig. In the city of Salzburg – he tells us – the locals like to pick up a small twig and throw it into the shaft of an abandoned salt mine. ![]() To explain what this is, Stendhal gets us to consider an analogy. When we fall in love our minds do something strange – and rather wonderful – to the other person. What’s going on? In his essay on love, Stendhal locates the source of the problem in the process of falling in love. And yet not very long after that, something similar happens. ![]() Then when we really get to know them they turn out to be completely the wrong person for us. We fall for someone and become enchanted by them. ![]()
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