“Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.”

— Ken MacLeod , book Learning the World

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 3 “Spectral Lines” (p. 40)

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