Lesson Number One: All the time traveling in the world can’t make someone love you. Tim/ABOUT TIME

Good morning…hope it’s a pleasant day for you

Celine: Loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more? BEFORE SUNRISE

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Celine: You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details. BEFORE SUNSET

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it’s that month of the year where LOVE is in air and though we marry in June and vacation in August we swear to love and all it’s lore in February—that time when symbolic hearts flourish about–where cards and candy appear in profusion at the beloved’s side and it is impossible to find an unreserved seat for dinner on the 14th. How did we come to this month, was it divine (Cupid of course) intervention? Or just a quirk of fate—where cards are sent in profusion to ones TRUE LOVE many WITH Pictures of arrows protruding from buns and the organ of the heart, looking vaguely like a bun itself, red an profusely everywhere.

So you may know that the Holiday (or at least event) bears the name of a Christian (as in Catholic) saint…what you may no know is even the church who put the St. in front of his name isn’t sure who or what he was: Valentine was either a temple priest or maybe the Bishop of Terni…both executed by Claudius II in or near Rome…and it reportedly involved marrying Christian couples. In fact “Enough confusion surrounds the true identity of St. Valentine that the Catholic Church discontinued liturgical veneration of him in 1969, though his name remains on its list of officially recognized saints.” http://www.history.com/news/6-surprising-facts-about-st-valentine

The Catholic Church has this to say about the origins of the day: “The romantic nature of Valentine’s Day may have derived during the Middle Ages, when it was believed that birds paired couples in mid-February. According to English 18th-century antiquarians Alban Butler and Francis Douce, Valentine’s Day was most likely created to overpower the pagan holiday, Lupercalia. Although the exact origin of the holiday is not widely agreed upon, it is widely recognized as a day for love, devotion and romance.” http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=159

Susan Parrish: Tell me you love me now.
Joe Black: I love you now. I love you always. MEET JOE BLACK

Lupercalia…IS or was a pagan fertility festival celebrated by Rome ( but probably older than Rome…)which was observed Feb. 13- 15th Lupercus was a fertility God (think Pan). Some think that this was what Valentine’s day was produced to celebrate but “Some researchers, such as Kellog and Cox, have made a separate claim that the modern customs of Saint Valentine’s Day originate from Lupercalia customs. Other researchers have rejected this claim: they say there is no proof that the modern customs of Saint Valentine’s Day originate from Lupercalia customs, and the claim seems to originate from misconceptions about festivities” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia

So far we have a saint who nobody is sure who he was, that is associated with love and then there’s a god who’s ceremonies may or may not have been replaced by him…however I think we’re pretty sure the event all ended up in February.

I kind of like Father Frank O’Gara of Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin, Ireland, account that goes: “The idea of encouraging them (soldiers) to marry within the Christian church was what Valentine was about. And he secretly married them because of the edict. Valentine was eventually caught, imprisoned and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against command of Emperor Claudius the second.” http://www1.cbn.com/st-valentine-real-story

William: I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my mother has trouble remembering my name.
Anna Scott: I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. Notting Hill

Oh and there are actually three celebrations: “The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates Saint Valentine’s Day, albeit on July 6 and July 30, the former date in honor of the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day

But back to the Feb. 14th date well not really: “AD 1382 Geoffrey Chaucer writes his Parlement of Foules (or “Parliament of Fowls”), which is widely taken to be the first linking of St Valentine’s Day to romantic love. Celebrating the engagement of Richard II of England and Anne of Bohemia, he wrote: “For this was on St. Valentine’s Day/ When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.” But a lot of scholars think this is really May 2 (a celebration of the saints day on the calendar of Valentine of Genoa). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/valentines-day/7187784/History-of-Valentines-Day.html

This just gets weirder and weirder—two saints or maybe more and two churches, 4 different day, not to mention a bard just scattering things further to the wind and adding a doomed prince (Richard II) to the mix….talk about confusion.

Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you. I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family’s expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.
Elizabeth Bennet: I don’t understand.
Mr. Darcy: I love you. Most ardently. Please do me the honor of accepting my hand. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

OK NOW that it’s so clear to everyone I’m going close for the day and let you establish your thoughts on how we went from sheer confusion to sappy day of candle light dinner, giving chocolates to people we spend the rest of the year admonishing to watch and even loose weight, sending cards with weird symbols of heart s and half (or more) naked winged creatures who’s idea of making some one love someone else is to shoot them in the ass with arrows.

Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Juliet: ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy, thou art thyself though not a Montague. What is Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. Oh, what’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection to which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name! And for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself. ROMEO AND JULIET