Never ever has the fantasy for carnel pleasure been explored in such a meticulous fashion, as done in ‘The Alchemy of Desire’. The book starts with the quote “Love is not the greatest glue between two people, sex it”, and ends with “Sex is not the greatest glue between two people, Love is”. Amid the quotes, the author explores what he calls ‘the alchemy of desire’, desire, which when active can take a person into the realms of fantasy never explored before, but when missing can run a havoc into ones life. It is this desire that can inebriate one’s mind with another one’s body, act as an elixir of life: the cure of all ailments. The same desire can foster jealousy, distraught truth and hallucinate reality. The desire in men for women, the desire in men for men, the desire for fornication, the connubial desire, the desire in dreams, the incubus and the succubus desire, the missing desire, the budding desire, the vicarious desire, the personal desire, the book explores the fantasies of all sort of desires. What the reader is left with in the end is this unanswered question, “What drives the human soul, desire for love or love for desire?”
A book worth reading for those searching for solace in their monotonous life.
“Desire is a wonderfully promiscuous thing, but when it is trapped in monogamy it cannot survive without love.”
this is a good book
Comment by Amrapali Dwivedi — July 29, 2009 @ 6:01 pm