When Augie March gets going, it begins to crop up in his letters like a woman who will later become a lover.
Her struggles with her married lover (Xavier Beauvois), with a friend who hesitates to become a lover (Alex Descas), with a lover who hesitates to become a friend (Nicolas Duvauchelle), and with an ex whom she keeps inviting back (Laurent Grévill) are balanced on the edge of humor and pain.
In Romeo and Juliet, young Romeo goes around brooding and waxing lyrical about love even before he sees Juliet – he fancies himself a lover, then becomes a lover.
He also becomes a lover — much of the book is a paean to his muse and mate, Lydia — but the story doesn't stray into bestiality.
In participating in the game, one ceases to be a lover of literature ironically playing at undressing and soliciting sex from a girl, and becomes a lover of literature playing at undressing and soliciting sex from a girl.
Jung falls in love with Spielrein, a patient who becomes a lover and a colleague, while both of them are drawn toward and repelled by the magnetism of Papa Sigmund.
His father died when he was three and during the second world war, he and his mother, Jessie, were evacuated to Baltimore in the US, where he became a lover of baseball.
It made him angry, then famous, and he became a lover not of war but of war stories, the grit and stink of combat, be it military, political, bureaucratic or some combination thereof.
In America, Ralph Waldo Emerson became a lover of Saadi Shirazi, describing him as "like Homer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Montaigne... perpetually modern".
Soon after, Clairmont became a lover of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, and Mary Godwin and Shelley had a second child on 24 January 1816, who was named William after Godwin.
