Literary Examples
- 'Romeo so fits the archetype of love-struck youth that he has become the very model of Cupid himself'.
- In Possession, the hero's ex quotes Robert Graves to her new lover - '"Oh Love, be fed by apples while you may"' - echoing the Song of Solomon, 'comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love'.
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