Marriage

Two People Cannot Travel Together, Except They Agree in One

by Samuel Dumas 
09/16/19
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All other animals do not marry:  because all other animals do not choose to travel together by agreement. They also, do not build thousand mile long ramps to travel on, or construct 200,000 lb homes, or children home societies for their legacy. Especially, and only to humans today, marriage is like the freeway.

We don’t find in other animal domains this thought: that the things built out-populate the builder that spawned them; nor do we find in other animal domains that the complexities of the interactions which they afford are in staggeringly high numbers. (How many cell phones are there; how many interactions have they caused?)

Only man (Humanity) expresses marriage when they macadamize and build freeways out of the matter that was their earth—dust. Freeways then have design and purpose —and also, past and present expectations are attached to them.

When you do the math, the summing of man always involves marriage: making something with 60,000 miles of roadway in them (out of dust), and this involves a freeway of sequences built into processes we call human sexuality. Two person addition equals one. And only man seems to achieve this sum using complexities of quality that extrapolate into many roadway lines intersecting nine months later in a mystery of happiness (think, freeway lanes merging into a point on the distant horizon.) This is the somewhere, over the rainbow, that man has gone; the somewhere farther than any other animal has gone before.

When two people move through distance together they must agree in one Interstate to drive on, one particular degree of North, East or South—one car , one driver, one time to start the car, one final destination, one purpose, in general, for even going there.

And along the way they will agree to change the one Interstate (there is always a fork), or change the one driver, or change the one time to start the car. To us this is marriage-like...and marriage is like the freeway.

(Excerpt from Marriage Is Like the Freeway, pg. 4 and 5.)

Running feet: The more intense Your math, the happier Your marriage.
Running feet: Questions: the universal yardstick of marriage.

—Dumas fils