- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
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After Mel claims that he can tell Terri, Nick, and Laura what “real love” is, he proceeds to go on this rather incoherent rant about lost love. Although it’s clear that Mel has a deep emotional connection to the topic at hand, he isn’t able to convey his overarching point in an intelligible way, nor is it clear that he even knows for himself what that overarching point is. Mel’s struggling in vain in this passage further challenges the idea that love is something concretely knowable and definable, particularly when trying to explain it using language.
Mel’s meditations about his…