The stuffed rabbit in Margery Williams's much-loved The Velveteen Rabbit wants something more than being loved: he wants to become real.
"He wants to be liked, he wants to be loved, he wants people to cheer for him," Stern said.
He didn't want just to invoke love; he wanted to taste it.
In the winter of 1938, when he finally began a long-planned and self-assigned subway photography project (he called it "a project for love") he wanted to do nothing but look at the people.
The real threat to him is love: "He wanted to move backward and close the door and be alone again, in the bathroom, but Erin had already noticed him and, after a pause, distracted by her attention, he reciprocated her approach.
He just wanted to be loved; he just wanted a home and a family.
This presents a dilemma for Ham: how can he become respectable and win the love he wants if he's equally attracted to the life he knows — which involves making it on the streets?
The fourth, "Javali," depicts a young girl conversing with Lord Padmanabha: She promises him the love he wants but reminds him that she is too young and that he must wait.
She appears bearing forbidden candy; they share it, completely unable to distinguish sugar from love: "He wants the smear of melted chocolate on her lips".
Corgan is 'ready for love', he wants 'a friend now and then', though his self-righteous wail on an ill-judged cover of the Bee Gees's 'To Love Somebody' will surely put off any contenders.
