- people, adrenaline, pleasure
- it takes two strangers with ostensibly nothing in common and through a shared, immediate experience, links them, even just for a moment=triangulation
- what attracts people most, it would appear, is other people
- where people are kissing=a safe place
- more to falling in love than just the right combination of personalities...what also mattered...were the circumstances under which people met
- more likely to be attracted to people they met during unusual or boundry breaking experiences-those involving power, mystery, isolation or strong emotions
- places open, full of street life, exciting, full of novelty and adventure
- mix of shapes, texture and activity
- focal point that commands the eye
- water
- mystery: out of sight and more to explore, ex. winding paths, rolling hills
- legibility: sense of bearings, not wholy lost
- enclosure/containment
- asking knuckleheaded questions was a good way of putting people on the defensive, of poking a hole through their pretensions as they bumbled their way through an answer
- (if i am so gung ho about him picking me up, i need to be fully engaged in that opportunity and respond, like that guy in the bar in venice-it does happen, me being me!)
- most cliche advice: be yourself. if you are not yourself, then he won't be able to get to know you and determine if he likes you
- to write about the human condition, he felt he had to first understand his own psyche: the reason he was in psychoanalysis
- proximity forces intimacy
- excited, afraid, worked up, physical exercise, novel situation
- when people are in a place that makes them feel good, they are more apt to feel friendly toward nearby strangers
- triangulation: objects or conversation pieces that permit strangers to trade observations while keeping focus off themselves
- slow time long enough for two busy people to catch each other's eye
- aesthetic, show place
- emotional, satisfaction, pleasure
- shared appreciation
- OPEN AND READY TO FALL IN LOVE
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