Romantic Time
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Our sense of romantic love is a condition in which something from the past is idealized in such a way as to project a kind of perfect state in the future. If I meet the right person, my love will endure eternally. This emotional condition is exploited by the popular media through countless love songs and the never-ending soap operas such as Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns,which imply that there is always a tomorrow, like the classic tale of One Thousand and One Nights, whose never-ending story precludes time's one reality— death. (Even death is not a permanent condition in soap operas, as characters are resurrected through bizarre twists in plot— and what really happened to Tony Soprano?) This can also be seen in the narratives of video games, which begin anew with the press of a button; life is restored and the story starts again.
See Also
- Metaphors of Space
- Bolter
- Davies
- Concrete Poetry
- Memory and Space
- Cyberpunk
- Romantic Time
- Canning
- Minsky
