-as heard by Colin Clark in the 2011 film
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Twenty-five years ago today:
May 6, 1987
Wednesday
It was an amazingly beautiful day today. It feels like an early summer. I tried parking near this park ‘for free’. It was suggested by my coworker, Rhoda. I hope her advice works out.
Carla and I ate outside. We did a quick take-out from our company cafeteria. The management was at an all day meeting. I love it when they’re gone. It’s not that I do less work but there seems to be less pressure.
I left the office at 4PM and went home to lift my thirty pound barbells. I bicycled until 6PM when I returned home to a call from my sister-in-law, Sherri.
“Mike, I have to go out to order Ashley’s birthday cake. Do you think you can come over to watch Ashley for a while?”
“Sure, I’ll be right there.”
It was fun watching Ashley. Sherri returned soon enough and I ended up eating dinner with them. I never made it to the gym. Oh well…all in due time. I’m not that far gone yet. I am well aware of what I must do to get more fit; however, I was craving chocolate.
In 1982, two psycho-pharmacologists, Dr. Michael Liebowitz and Dr. Donald Klein, proposed an explanation for why lovesick people pig out on chocolate.
They speculated that the phenomenon might well be related to the brain chemical phenyl ethylamine (PEA), which makes us feel the roller coaster of passion we associate with falling in love, an amphetamine-like rush. But when the rush ends, and the brains stops producing PEA, we continue to crave its natural high, its emotional speed. Where can one find lots of this luscious, love-arousing PEA? In chocolate. So it’s possible that some people eat chocolate because it reproduces the sense of well-being we enjoy when we’re in love.
-Diane Ackerman
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES
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