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ACT I: MANIA
In greek philosophy and mythology mania is used to describe an obsessive, destroying kind of love. Its an intense, passionate form of attachment, that often overrides logical thinking and self control.
Mania is the kind of love, that burns too brightly to be gentle.
And yet often it is not real love, but the product of affection losing its balance. Like a storm that grew and destroyed everything on its way in beautiful madness, because passion forgot its boundaries.
Its the love for what humans picture something to be. Its a love for every thought and image they pour into something else, a love for everything they want in another person no matter if this person really has those qualities. A desire for connection forged out of the deep fear of abandonment. Its something restless, when the haunting image occupies every thought, every silence and even the darkest shadows of the mind.
Like a trembling canyon between devotion and obsession, created by the fear of the hoping, imagined flame of joy being extinguished and therefore clinging to it, reaching for it and refusing to let go, even if it burns ones hands.
Mania is a love for the things humans imagine, for what they dream to be, achieve, want or need.
