"All matters
of the heart can be resolved with wine and candlelight."
SNARKY RESPONSE:
Unless we're talking heart surgery. In which case, wine and candlelight are NOT
helpful at all. Oh, and if the matter involves a betrayal of one kind or
another, a considerable amount of groveling will be required.
"All matters
of the heart can be resolved with wine and candlelight."
As a romance
writer, this fortune was very apropos of my genre. This mindset, and setting, works
perfectly in the development of a romantic entanglement. Yes, the setting is a
bit clichéd, but no matter how clichéd it appears, it is effective. What heart
doesn't go pitter pat at the sight of a candlelit table set for two? (Okay, I
admit that there are occasions where that pitter-patter is a full-on arrhythmia
of phobic anxiety, but that's another story!).
Consider the way
candlelight draws you in, creating an intimacy no electric light can completely
duplicate. Perhaps it harkens to the earliest days and the security and magic
of the fire. And because candlelight works best in a darkened room, yet more is
added to the intimacy factor. The darkness unconsciously encloses the two at
table in a spatial cocoon. Flickering candlelight softens the edges, disguises
minor imperfections, and encourages quiet in voice and demeanor. Within that
magical circle of light, guarded from the darkness beyond, the two hearts can
focus, one to the other. And where there is a connection there is hope.
Do you feel
"all matters" can be resolved in this manner or do you feel that it's
another fallacy the Fortune Cookie Seer is circulating as truth?
