Question I recently re-read your paper "In Praise of Monogamy," on married love. And I was curious about this, because the idea that you're going to open yourself up and give yourself completely to one person, it's a beautiful idea. I don't quite--I'm married! But I don't quite know what this idea is!

LaRouche: [laughing] That's usually the case! People discover what marriage is, after they do it! [general laughter]

Question In the words of Larry Freeman, I don't want to become, like an "old married couple," you know, stodgy, and--

LaRouche: He is an old married couple! The two parts stay together all the time! [laughter]

Question The question that I have, is: In organizing somebody at the table, what is the difference between the type of love that you have for somebody with whom you're married, and a person that you want to organize, to help develop their soul? Is there difference?

LaRouche: Fortunately, you came to an expert!

No. See, a good marriage is like a good Classical artistic composition. It starts with an intention, and if the intention is valid, the composition works out. It's that simple!

You see, there's an interaction; there are ironies, there're interaction, in a marriage, which make it strong. It's not strong, because of something, or this or that. It's because it's a process of collaboration; it's a process of work. It's the unfolding of an intention. It involves people outside the marriage, in the sense of what your impact of the marriage is, on people in the society around the marriage. What's the marriage's impact on the people around it? If it has a good impact, fine.

And, you approach it, the way you would approach a serious, Classical musical composition. And, think of it in those terms. And it will work--I mean, if you got the right notes, to begin with.

You know, you have to have at least a couple, in any Classical musical composition. [laughing] And, once you've got that couple, you now can say, "Is there an idea here, in this couple?" For you to start, there is an idea, an intention-idea, which can be developed, into a full composition, then you've probably got a good case. [applause]

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