Want some writer to have said something, but having trouble finding it in her texts?  Not a problem!  Just add a dash of oudelogistics.

René Girard is famous for claiming that there is no such thing as spontaneous desire: we don’t fall for people because they are beautiful or smart or funny or kind; we fall for them because somebody else fell for them first. This all sounds extremely exciting, in that very French kind of way.  But does anyone actually believe it?