Let's Talk About Love

What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. Centuries have passed by, relationships have bloomed and so has love. But no one can give the proper definition of love. Some say love is a strong positive emotion of regard and affection or a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction or any object of warm affection or devotion. Depending on context, love can be of different varieties. Romantic love is a deep, intense and unending. It shared on a very intimate and interpersonal and sexual relationship. The term Platonic Love, familial love and religious love are also matter of great affection. It is more of desire, preference and feelings. The meaning of love will change with each different relationship and depends more on its concept of depth, versatility, and complexity. No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind. Sadly, most persons don’t realize this, but the common, or popular, view of love involves an element of receiving something. 'I love chocolate' really means that 'I enjoy getting the experience of the taste of chocolate'. Similarly, 'I love you' commonly implies 'I enjoy playing with your body' or 'I enjoy believing that you will give me security or protection'. As a result, good old friend Jacques Lacan, in his teachings about love, described the typical act of love as Polymorphous Perversion. Well, don’t be put off by the big words. We already know what perversion means, I guess. Polymorphous simply means having many forms. So this amounts to saying, like the popular song from the 1980s, that we’re looking for love in all the wrong places. That is, we look for satisfaction in all the various titillating parts of the body but never find what is truly sought! Well, regardless of what Lacan or I think, let's hear what Bobby thinks about love.

Detective Robert Goren: Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it. (Crazy S01E12)

Detective Robert Goren: She wasn't driven to kill out of rage; she chose to kill out of love.

ADA Ron Carver: Love?

Detective Robert Goren: It's a many-splendored thing. (Seizure S01E17)

Detective Robert Goren: (To male suspect about his male secretary) Are you lovers?

Suspect: Give me a little credit. I don't chase after secretaries. (Mis-Labeled S03E14)

Well, sometimes our detective gets it wrong:) And speaking of love, he consequently explains why he's single!

Detective Robert Goren: My mother always told me to stay away from beautiful women.
ADA Ron Carver: Jealousy and desire, what tangled webs they weave!
Detective Robert Goren: Beauty, it's a beast. (Beast S04E19)

Hmmm... What do you know? How can someone so damn beautiful say this? So you are one of those 'Beauty Is Within' men? Ah Bobby, you are a dying breed! I'm so touched by your words that I could run to you in slow motion for hours, backed by Chariots Of Fire. I could run in saucy red Baywatch style swimsuit, if you like! Ah, how silly of me! You are a 'Beauty Is Within' man, aren't you? Just forget it. By the way, I'm asking the USA Network: It's obvious that I'm not gonna ever have Bobby. So is there a Robert Goren doll/action figure/stuffed toy anywhere in our future? Anything will do. Well, I know what you are thinking. Yes, it's exactly what it looks like but I can still explain. I'm alone and I guess I've missed my bedtime pal. Oh no, there's just a little bit of dust in my eye, that's it. Anyway, let's find out the real meaning of that four letter word in Gorenland.

L Is For Lust

O Is For Obsession

V Is For Very, Very And Very Sexy

E Is For Euphoria

A Brief History Of Crime

Inert Dwarf (S04E09) is a fourth season episode of the LOCI and in this episode, Detective Robert Goren and his partner Alex Eames are investigating the radiation poisoning of a tormented scientist. When our detectives investigate further, they discover that the victim was working with a crackpot mathematician genius in a wheelchair, named John Manotti, on the controversial Theory Of Everything. This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the controversy involving famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. The use of the Theory Of Everything in this episode also refers to the Theory of Everything: The Origin And Fate Of The Universe, an unauthorized 2002 book using excerpts from several different Hawking lectures. Actually TOE is a putative theory of theoretical physics that explains and links together all known physical phenomena, though the phrase itself is very misleading on several counts. Quite understandably TOE sounds like a key to the ultimate secret of the divine intelligence but first of all, the theory is not yet fully formulated and when it is, it is not entirely clear that it will be the last word in fundamental physics. The primary problem in producing a TOE is that the accepted theories of Quantum Physics and General Relativity are hard to combine. However based on theoretical Holographic Principle arguments from the 1990s, many physicists believe that 11 dimensional space, which is described in many sectors by Matrix String Theory, in many other sectors by Perturbative String Theory is the complete theory of everything, although there is no widespread consensus.There have been many theories of everything proposed by theoretical physicists over the last century, but none have been confirmed experimentally. Therefore as the theory is now more science fiction than science fact, we'll just have to wait and see. Speaking of sci-fi, a great-grandfather of Ijon Tichy, a character from a cycle of Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi stories of 1960s, was known to work on the General Theory of Everything. Well, just like in the books of Lem, one day soon, the Theory Of Everything will arrive and gravity may come under our control! Yeah, yeah, life will never be the same ... Till then let's see what our detective is doing. Oh yes, he's still cute, sexy, sweet and funny! Btw calling Manotti's wife 'anti-matter' is hilarious:)

Robert Goren: (plays with a swivel chair) See? Again... It went forth. Now, Manotti should have bruises on his knees and in front of his face.
Officer (brings Manotti's wheelchair): Why do you want it? You're not gonna throw it, are you?
Alex Eames: No. He's had enough fun.

(After Goren insists on hearing the alarm on Manotti's wheelchair.)
John Manotti: (to Eames) Does he play the siren when he drives?
Robert Goren: (chuckles and points Eames) She drives.

We've talked about Who's-Behind-The-Wheel stuff before, haven't we? Bobby acts as if he doesn't care much about it. But all the same we sometimes find him complaining about Eames's obsession. Let's remember one of those frustrated Bobby moments (Stray S03E06).

(Detective Bishop clears her throat as Goren scrolls down a list on a computer screen)
Robert Goren: If I'm not scrolling fast enough...
Lynn Bishop: Sorry, I didn't mean to...
Robert Goren: No, really, I don't mind, you know. Eames likes to drive, so she drives. You want to scroll? Scroll.

Well, in the end he doesn't let her scroll:) Does he? Anyway, right here, he proves the age-old axiom: 'Action Speaks Louder Than The Words'

Bobby, Standing By The Passenger Side Of The Squad Car
*Looking Disappointed*

Does anyone remember the word 'justice'? According to the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. And I add one more; everyone has the right to drive. Ah yes, I have a dream that Bobby will one day drive the squad car of NYPD. Therefore I want justice for Bobby, I want it now. And at this very moment I start my own 'Let Him Drive' campaign as I'm opposed to Eames's domination of the squad car. Bobby, dear, I'm telling you. Just SAY NO TO EAMES! If you're afraid, here's your poster speaker. (Allright, I'm just kidding. And no, I don't have any severe Eames allergy. So no offence please)