“O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn’d into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E’er since pursue me.”
(Twelfth Night, act 1, sc. 1)

Comments. A curious and original air-purifying effect of love at first sight. There are several line in Shakespeare’s plays dealing with the subject of love at first sight. Suggesting the fundamental irrationality of love, or rather, that the rationality of love escapes the usual scientific or pseudo-scientific tools with which ‘studies’ are conducted. In fact, when, to make his point, someone says “…studies show…” etc. it’s time to be particularly skeptical both about the studies and their results.
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