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The heart has words the lips can never shape.
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People who have received hearts from donors who begin to have dreams of past lives they've never known--at least in their current bodies.
Surely this is a myth, Wordwind, not science. The heart has nothing to do with either memories or emotions. The "heart" is located within specific areas of the brain, as brain scans now illustrate. Fear of an alien heart implanted in one's own body, hardly an everyday experience, could easily provoke vivid imaginings which are interpreted as alien "memories", doncha think?
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WW asserts, "The heart does speak." Well, not perhaps directly, but certainly it inspires speech. Somewhere in the Old Testament, I think in one of the Wisdom books (too lazy to look for it for you), is the verse, "Out of the fullness of the heart doth the mouth speak."
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The heart is in the head.
You are right Plutarch, but so are ten thousand poets and Bobtyoungbalt who know that love transcends mere reality. To the person who is experiencing a "broken heart" the effect is all-comsuming and all-pervasive. There is no positional location. It is, in effect, the universe.
The concept of a "broken heart", while not absolutely cross cultural, has enough Jungian qualities to travel well, witness below...
My heart have been broken, and all my love's in vain.
but the peoples always told me, that a woman is the glory of a man.
You whip her when she needs it, the judge will not let you explain. because he believes in justice and a woman is the glory of a man.
I rather be tired out on the desert, or right out, in the falling rain, than to lose my baby, cause she is, the glory of a man. Sonny Boy Williamson 1952.
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Dear Milum,
Thanks for providing Sonny Boy Williamson's lines. I like the repetition there of motif, by the way. That hearkens back to the repetitive nature of the beating of the heart, and I'm glad you provided the author so I wouldn't go off thinking that the lines are from a Gilbert and Sullivan musical, not that I would, you know!
Beat regards,
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Goodness gracious Wordwrecker,
Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? You are not Wordperfect.
I am...
sincerely yours,
Milum.
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"Where is fancy bred, in the heart, or in the head?" No matter what poets say, it is in the head.
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"The heart has its reasons that reason itself can never understand." Blaise Pascal, scientist (Yeah, well, he was French, so maybe that explains it!) 
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Well, if the heart's in the head, it makes it much easier to rip it out and stomp that sucker flat, no?
Has anybody mentioned that the reason the heart's seen as the centre of emotion is that strong emotion makes the heart beat more/harder or something? I'm sure that it has to do with endorphines or enzymes or little green men with hammers or something. Our medical members can probably give a more rational and reasoned explanation.
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