Once Smitten Twice Shy
Once Smitten, Twice Shy, by Armond Smitten. Ah, the delicious irony, that an ancient Germanic adjective for striking and beating also defines lovesick infatuation. When I think of smitten, I call to mind buff, blond Siegfried, hammering an enormous fist onto his anvil chest, and bellowing to Br?nnhilde, -in operatic vibrato!- 'Ja! Ich smitten! Smitten Ich!' Hyperbole, I grant you, but surely this is the Fates' warning that no good comes from such an obsession. ...