This intuition resonates across culture and art. Marcel Proust’s madeleine scene in In Search of Lost Time (1913) dramatizes how a taste restores not only memory but the self who once loved, revealing pleasure as an enduring structure within us. Similarly, Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (1903) urges transforming love and sorrow into inner architecture—rooms where the soul can live. Public rituals echo this private work: Mexico’s Día de los Muertos builds altars that invite the dead into daily life, embodying remembrance as presence. Across these examples, the world suggests that love does not disappear; it becomes inhabitable space. [...]
