Like may, indeed, draw to like, as the saw hath it.

But in the things of love like and like agree not well together.

Fair desires dark, stout and stark desire slender, slow desires quick, severe desires gay (though this often secretly).

And so the world goes on, and in another generation, sprung from these desirings, once more dark desireth fair and fair dark.
There I am at it again.

Oh, but I, Hugo Gottfried, am the wise man when I set out on my disquisitions.