The Singularly Quaint Emotion that is Love Like the changing of seasons, the ebb and flow of tides, the shedding of leaves and the sprouts rising from little seeds, love as an emotion is turbulent and ever-changing. Most of the romances that dominate world literature and media speak of Love and its lethal impact on the hearts and minds of characters. Usually in those stories, love conquers all or destroys all; there’s no in between. Love is also famously documented as dimming down the IQ of most characters (like Romeo from Romeo and Juliet famously swallowing poison and not checking properly if Juliet was even dead, that fool!) But love can be very eccentric. Though we like to pretend otherwise and define it within the bounds of what society at large considers "proper". Then the definition of "proper" changes with passing ages. That is why, we have decided to dedicate this post to the depiction of romantic love through the ages and pages of literature, history and...