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Sheila Cook

A Point of View: The Horror of Love

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The Horror of Love

27/09/2013

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, The Horror of Love

Stephen King says, 'Love creates horror.' AL Kennedy agrees.

Stephen King says, 'Love creates horror.' AL Kennedy agrees - 'I don't personally welcome love's ability to make me fear,' she writes.

Stephen King says "Love creates horror." AL Kennedy agrees. "As someone who often says 'I think' and almost never says 'I feel', I don't personally welcome love's ability to make me fear not only for myself, but others," she writes.

But love makes us altruistic, humane. "We would find it bizarre if a parent was more worried about dropping a vase than dropping their baby - even a Ming vase and an ugly baby. An absence of love within a family or a relationship is taken as a sign of something having gone very wrong," she says.

"But an absence of love in the world we help construct around us, that's regarded as a form of common sense. We are used to making decisions - or having them made for us - which would save the vase and not the baby."

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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