We love the tawdry chintz of Valentine’s Day, which feels like a real saint’s day, all red cellophane and roses.  In my world however, Valentine’s is also traditionally a day for romantic disaster.  But none of that this year.  This year I spent most of the day digging out from under a titanic snow, shoveling the sidewalks and driveway I’d already shoveled yesterday, finding the snow mysteriously heavy and hard, breaking off into giant chunks.

But it’s Valentine’s Day all the same.  And I eventually excavated my car, and drove it to campus.  I found the hard-to-find book I’d been waiting for six weeks had finally arrived from Germany, and that the quad was filled with students frolicking (there’s no other word for it) in the snow, like all the kids in brochures for Gustavus Adolphus College, or some such place.

In any case we here at TDQ wish you and yours a happy Valentine’s Day, whether you’re feeling a bit forlorn, or whether the bliss of romantic love has plugged you directly into the sweet center spot of the Hegelian dialectic. 

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