ABSTRACT
There is first of all the kind of love affair in which the male character yearns for physical consummation and suffers painful frustration either because the woman he is in love with is oblivious of his intentions or because he himself suffers feelings of shame over his carnal desires. Another kind of love affair causing affliction to the male character is the one in which physical consummation is followed by the male's jealousy and by the female's cruelty. When sexual energy is sublimated into drives for power or social distinction, the results are also undesirable. Aldous Huxley looked at love and Nature not as a typical romantic but rather as a man with a double vision—the eye of a mystic and the eye of an ecologist. It is debatable whether this optic marriage is either possible or compatible.
