Dear All,

I am a student in Leeds looking for interpretations of various aspects
of language for an art project. The project is to be exhibited to the
public in May, and you are welcome to pay a visit.

I am posting this invitation in several groups, in the hope of getting
as wide a variety of responses as possible. I hope that you do not
feel that this posting is inappropriate for this group. If so, please
accept my apologies, and ignore this message. I will only post this
message once, and at the end of the project I will post another
thanking everyone who took the trouble to send a message.

If you would like to participate, please respond to this message with
an e-mail giving a description of your personal views and/or opinions
of the word "love", in your own words. What do you think it means? How
would you describe it? Could you describe it another way? There are no
right or wrong answers; all opinions are valid. I just want to know
what *you* think the word means.

I look forward to receiving your response.

Thank you

Michael Adamson

Notes:
1. Please send your response direct to me at
love_in_your_own_words@..., NOT to the group.
2. Please send your e-mail as plain text (no HTML and no attachments).
Use the subject line "Love is...".
3. Your message can be as short or as long as you like, but if you go
over about 100 words it will probably have to be shortened - which I
don't want to do, because that defeats the principle of "your own words".
4. I cannot guarantee to include every entry; I don't know how many I
will receive, and I am working within fairly strict limits of time and
space. I will include as many as possible. I also cannot guarantee to
include messages received after 1st May 2004.
5. Your anonymity is guaranteed. I am only interested in your views on
the word "love", so I will be deleting all e-mails after I have
collected your comments. No names or e-mail addresses will be saved or
published.
6. I hope you will understand that I cannot promise to respond to
individual messages, but I will post a general "thank you" here and
acknowledge all contributions in the exhibition.
7. The project is to be exhibited at Leeds College of Art and Design,
Vernon Street, Leeds, 27th May - 3rd June 2004.
8. Finally, please try to be honest but above all enjoy taking part.
Thanks again.