Murmurs of the Earth - A mixed tape of the cosmos

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html

"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears, because passionate love is also partly about terror."

("These violent delights have violent ends")

Serotonin in the brain is associated with obsession, depression, and racing thoughts.

"What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened, by an intoxication or a disease." (Case study, neurosyphilis in 84 year old woman)

Experts report that "drama" is not good for your "brain".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201657.html

(says A.S., this article=ginsberg+neuroendocrinology+hunter s. thompson)

To do: reasons to write love letters, reason to put them in bottles.