Infatuation is typically what sparks loving relationships.
Spark loved it, but didn't think of it as special, although Brendan Gill called it a "classy watch".
Spark loves to make us watch, and we feel that she wants to make us better at watching, so completely must we surrender when we read her.
In her fiction Spark loved to play God, loftily manipulating her characters' fates, and she was less the benign and loving God of traditional Catholic theology than Calvin's cruel jokester, who would allow you to think you were saved only to surprise you at the end.
Spark loved it and negotiations continued for months.
But sticking a pile of your discarded holiday reads on the windowsill probably won't spark a love of literature.
"Star Wars" helped inspire my career as a film and television editor, and I have no doubt that the "Harry Potter" series will ultimately spark a love of film in a new generation.
In late August, we educators should be thinking about how to spark students' love of learning - not peeling bubble gum off books or scrubbing "Macbeth" with the obsessiveness of Lady M. herself.Since the recession, library use - and book abuse - have skyrocketed.
This can spark a love of books that may eventually spread, like wildfire, into other topics too.
Even then, I knew the power of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman would spark a love affair that would know no bounds.
