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Sometimes when you kiss someone really dear, you embrace stronger and stronger. You want to get closer, you feel like your flesh mixes with the flesh and you merge. The Kiss statuette is two bodies, but it’s impossible to tell one from another — so tight is their love. It looks the same from every side. The Kiss that you see is just a sketch of an idea, the concept. “Aristophanes ... presents his conception
of Love in the form of a myth. Humans once had four legs, four arms,
two heads, and so on, he says. Some were male, with two sets of male
sexual organs; some were females; and some were hermaphrodites, with
one set each of male and female sexual organs. We were twice the
people we are now, and the gods were jealous, afraid we would
overthrow them. Zeus decided to cut us in half to reduce our power,
and ever since we have been running all over the earth trying to
rejoin with our other half. When we do, we cling to that other half
with all our might, and we call this Love.”
From sparknotes.com There’s a lot of work till The Kiss statuette gets on the market. |