{"id":748,"date":"2016-03-07T11:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:53:07","slug":"love-and-other-synonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/love-and-other-synonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Other Synonyms: A Note on Love and Other Pranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Love-and-Other-Pranks.jpg\" alt=\"Love and Other Pranks\" \/><\/a>The title of my third novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Pranks<\/a>,<\/em> was borne of a conversation with a good friend sometime in 2007 in an A-frame in Austin, Texas. As I had not yet completed my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/nine-kinds-of-naked.php\" target=\"_blank\">second novel<\/a>, and because I\u2019d recently realized that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/novels.php\" target=\"_blank\">all three of my books<\/a> should take place within the same fictional universe, I included an Easter egg reference to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Pranks<\/a><\/em> in a paragraph on page 288 of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/nine-kinds-of-naked.php\" target=\"_blank\">Nine Kinds of Naked<\/a><\/em> that first linked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/novels.php\" target=\"_blank\">three novels<\/a> together:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"pullquote-right\">Their love is for another story, a story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">love and other pranks.<\/a><\/span>\u201cWhere do you think you\u2019re going?\u201d Diablo demanded, and a passing woman with impossibly long harvest brown hair streaked sexy with a few strands of silver heard his rhetorical inquiry as if it were intended for her. She stopped long enough for Diablo to catch a smirk from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/argue-naked.php\" target=\"_blank\">Argue Naked<\/a> emblazoned across the front of her T-shirt, hesitantly touched the side of her nose, and changed her direction, whispering \u201cWalk away\u201d to herself. An hour later, she happened to run into her estranged boyfriend, over whom she\u2019d wept because of their separation just that morning. Both of them discovered a transcendental sexuality that night, but their love is for another story, a story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">love and other pranks.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"463\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/of-love-and-other-demons.jpg\" alt=\"Of Love and Other Demons\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/of-love-and-other-demons.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/of-love-and-other-demons-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The thing is, though, after I\u2019d begun to research <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Pranks<\/a><\/em> in earnest, I discovered that Gabriel Garcia Marquez had first published a novel called <em>Del Amor y Otros Demonios,<\/em> i.e., <em>Of Love and Other Demons,<\/em> in 1994. I read it immediately, impressed and reassured that it had nothing but three words in its title in common with my current project. But as I do not write full-time, the seasons pulsed inexorable, and then in 2010 a movie starring Jake Gyllenhall and Anne Hathaway was released, entitled <em>Love and Other Drugs<\/em>. Puzzled at the apparently growing frequency of love and other synonyms, I went to see the film, and as it was half a comedy having to do with the release of Viagra and half a drama having to do with early-onset Parkinson\u2019s disease, I reassured myself once again that it had nothing to do with my current project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was vaguely concerned that this title that had by then woven itself deeply into the texture of my book was growing hackneyed. I considered changing the title, but I could not bring myself to do so, as this rather felt like deciding to change your child\u2019s name when they\u2019re eight years old. Besides, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Pranks<\/a><\/em> perfectly captures the theme of the story, so I let it be and eventually finished the book. During the interminable, two-year-long publishing process, however, a moment of idle curiosity prompted me to do a Google search for any additional <em>Love and Other\u2026<\/em> titles. Two hours later, and after scouring not only Google but also the Amazon and Wikipedia databases, I had compiled a probably-not-exhaustive list of at least 48 titles \u2013 songs, albums, books of poetry, tomes of cultural studies, novels, films, and lots and lots of romance and young adult novels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"447\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/on-love-and-other-difficulties.jpg\" alt=\"On Love and Other Difficulties\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/on-love-and-other-difficulties.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/on-love-and-other-difficulties-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>To be sure, most people have never even remotely heard of these titles<em>,<\/em> but I was nonetheless disconcerted at the trend. And actually, the same year that Gabriel Garcia Marquez published <em>Of Love and Other Demons,<\/em> an anthology of Rainer Maria Rilke\u2019s poetry was published entitled <em>On Love and Other Difficulties.<\/em> Synchronicity? Perhaps, but neither of those giants was the first to turn that particular phrase either. In 1990, there was a memoir published entitled <em>Love and Other Infectious Diseases<\/em>. So far, it seemed, love was a demon, a drug, a difficulty, and a disease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Digging deeper, I discovered that Spyro Gyra\u2019s 18<sup>th<\/sup> album, released in 1995, was called <em>Love and Other Obsessions.<\/em> The trend might have ended there, until an 11-year hiatus ended in 2006 with the release of six new titles that year, as if the phrase had been holding its breath. The most prominent among them was a novel entitled <em>Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,<\/em> which was eventually made into a film called <em>The Other Woman, <\/em>starring Natalie Portman. Besides this, there was also an album, a novel, a cultural studies tome, and two films called, respectively, <em>Love and Other Planets, \u2026Near-Death Experiences, \u2026Technologies, \u2026Dilemmas,<\/em> and \u2026<em>Disasters.<\/em> 2007 added another film called <em>Love and Other Four-Letter Words<\/em> to this synonymy, and the next two years saw five more projects, <em>Love and Other Crimes, \u2026Natural Disasters, \u2026Tragedies, \u2026Catastrophes, <\/em>and<em> \u2026Uses for Duct Tape.<\/em> All of this, remember, is before the 2010 romantic comedy-drama, <em>Love and Other Drugs, <\/em>and really, we\u2019re just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/love-and-other-drugs.jpg\" alt=\"Love and Other Drugs\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/love-and-other-drugs.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/love-and-other-drugs-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>2010 also gave us an album and a novel titled, respectively, <em>Love and Other Struggles <\/em>and <em>Love and Other Secrets<\/em>, and then things really took off once the romance and young adult authors caught wind of this turn of phrase. Here I will cease my annual catalogue, and suffice it to say that as of the last time I checked, our culture has been enriched by <em>Love and Other Errors, \u2026Anxieties, \u2026Theories, \u2026Things, \u2026Things I\u2019m Bad At, \u2026Lemons, \u2026Mysteries, \u2026Troubles, \u2026Distractions, \u2026Surprises, \u2026Subjects, \u2026Sins, \u2026Scandals, \u2026Small Wars, \u2026Profanities, \u2026Fiascos, \u2026Fables, \u2026Foreign Words, \u2026Games, \u2026Wicked Games, \u2026Unknown Variables, \u2026B-Sides, \u2026Perishable Items, \u2026Acts of Courage, \u2026Lies Worth Telling, <\/em>and<em> \u2026Cosmic Nonsense<\/em>. Also, and as if to underline the point, there is another book called <em>Love and a Million Other Things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wondered: Is there any word that we can attach to the end of the phrase \u201clove and other\u2026\u201d that does not inspire some meaning or another? Love and other digressions? I think I see what that means. Love and other cups of coffee? Invigorating, sure, and it can make you nervous. Love and other surveillance cameras? Someone was in a controlling relationship. Love and other crack pipes? Addicted to love, and maybe they got burned. Okay, let\u2019s try to get obscure with this: Love and other bottle caps? Evocative, a heart overflowing with effervescent happiness. Love and other sunglasses? Sunshine of your love, baby, pretty cool. Love and other hatreds? I get the irony. Love and other baseballs? Right, right, the home run, of course. Love and other windshield wipers? Clarifies your path, naturally. Love and other plastic lids? Keeps you fresh and contained, or maybe it&#8217;s just a worthless piece of garbage. Love and other business cards? A cynical take on the marriage market, perhaps. Love and other zippers? An allusion to S&amp;M, obviously.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote-left\">Love is the supreme synonym, the ultimate reality that all other words can never more than merely facet.<\/span><br \/>\nSo what are we looking at here? Love, as it turns out, love is so multifaceted, so all-encompassing, that it can be paired with virtually anything and share something in common with it. Ancient Sanskrit had over eighty words for love, but we have but one, one love, and love is the supreme synonym, the ultimate reality that all other words can never more than merely facet, and this is perhaps what The Beatles meant when they sang <em>All You Need Is Love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. For posterity\u2019s sake, it is worth noting that the first instance of <em>Love and Other\u2026 <\/em>came not from the 1990 memoir entitled <em>Love and Other Infectious Diseases.<\/em> Rather\u2014as far as I have been able to discover (and please feel free to correct me)\u2014the first instance of this phrase was an album released in 1977 titled <em>Love and Other Bruises,<\/em> and recorded by the agonizingly soft-rock Australian pop duo who called themselves Air Supply. 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