# CXXIX: The Impatience of the Pair to Fly to Each Other’s Arms explained — The Kural

> Chapter companion for The Kural by Thiruvalluvar.

## What happens

The chapter explores the intense impatience and longing between lovers, where the desire to sulk dissolves upon proximity, and love's rapture surpasses all faults and hesitations.

## Themes in this chapter

### Love and Marriage

The chapter delves into the passionate, impatient love between a pair, highlighting the overpowering nature of romantic attachment.

## Character check-ins

### Bouderie

Personified as the sulking impulse that cannot persist in the face of true love.

### the Kural

The text itself is the source of the verses describing the lovers' impatience.

## Key lines

> She Rapture at the very thought and delight at the mere seeing belong not to wine: they belong only unto love.

The joy of anticipation and the pleasure of sight are unique to love, not to intoxication.

_Contrasts the ecstasy of love with the effects of wine._

> When love exceedeth even the measure of a palmyra tree, the desire to sulk can never enter the heart even to the extent of a millet seed.

When love is immense, there is no room for even the smallest resentment.

_Uses hyperbolic imagery to emphasize love's dominance over sulking._

> Even as the eye seeth not the blackness of the pencil when it is being painted, even so I see no blemish in my beloved when he is near.

Just as the eye ignores the pencil's blackness during painting, I see no faults in my beloved when he is close.

_Illustrates how proximity blinds one to flaws._

> Who will jump into a stream knowing that it hath a treacherous undercurrent that will carry him away? and how should I take to sulking who know that I cannot hold on to it when he is near?

No one would enter a dangerous stream knowingly; similarly, I cannot maintain sulking when he is near.

_Compares the futility of sulking to a perilous river._

> There were the sulks in her eye when she saw me: but when I approached, she flew to my arms even quicker than I myself to hers.

Though she appeared sulky at first, she rushed into my embrace faster than I could.

_Reveals the lover's immediate surrender to affection._

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