![]() ![]() Alice, a romantic, self-doubting type, had been fascinated by the idea of a great love and has unquestionably found it. She wonders briefly about a still-to-arrive Robert and Jeff but lets herself be wooed and won by this witty, attentive and thoughtful gallant. He switches place cards-he wouldn’t dream of sitting between a Jennifer and a Melanie, he explains-so as to get beside Alice. “The Romantic Movement” is the cautionary tale of Alice and Eric, a young London pair whose coupling is sparked by the eternal difference between women and men ( vive it!) and whose decoupling a year or so later is brought about ( helas !) by temporal wear and tear on this same difference.Īlice, who works in advertising, and Eric, an international banker, meet cute at a big formal party where both turn up early at the same empty table. Reversing Aesop’s, his fable is a limp few lines while his moral prances on and on. ![]() Alain de Botton is not so much the author of this whimsically pedagogic romance as its chaperon a chaperon who does all the talking and hardly lets the couple get a word in edgewise. ![]()
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