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love will surrender. force tints unchained was
    It is pointless to try to argue against such power, to imagine that you are thenceforth to count among not interested in it, or that it is evil and ugly. The harder you try to resist the most tremendous of the world's forces and at
    the lure of seduction—as an idea, as a form of power—the more you will moments to have power find yourself fascinated. The reason is simple: most of us have known the even over life and death. . . . power of having someone fall in love with us. Our actions, gestures, the • The deliberate spell- binding of man's senses
    things we say, all have positive effects on this person; we may not com- was to have a magical effect pletely understand what we have done right, but this feeling of power is in- upon him, opening up an toxicating. It gives us confidence, which makes us more seductive. We may infinitely wider range of also experience this in a social or work setting—one day we are in an ele- sensation and spurring him on as if impelled by an
    vated mood and people seem more responsive, more charmed by us. These inspired dream. moments of power are fleeting, but they resonate in the memory with —ALEXANDER VON GLEICHENgreat intensity. We want them back. Nobody likes to feel awkward or timid RUSSWURM, THE WORLD'S
    or unable to reach people. The siren call of seduction is irresistible because LURE, TRANSLATED BY HANNAH

WALLER
    power is irresistible, and nothing will bring you more power in the modern world than the ability to seduce. Repressing the desire to seduce is a kind of xxii • Preface
    The first thing to get in
    hysterical reaction, revealing your deep-down fascination with the process; your head is that every
    you are only making your desires stronger. Some day they will come to the single \ Girl can be
    surface.
    caught —a nd that you'll
    catch her if \ You set your
    To have such power does not require a total transformation in your
    toils right. Birds will
    character or any kind of physical improvement in your looks. Seduction is a sooner fall dumb in \
    game of psychology, not beauty, and it is within the grasp of any person to Springtime, \ Cicadas in
    summer, or a hunting-dog \
    become a master at the game. All that is required is that you look at the Turn his back on a hare,
    world differently, through the eyes of a seducer.
    than a lover's bland
    A seducer does not turn the power off and on—every social and per inducements \ Can fail sonal interaction is seen as a potential seduction. There is never a moment with a woman, Even one
    you suppose \ Reluctant
    to waste. This is so for several reasons. The power seducers have over a man will want it.
    or woman works in social environments because they have learned how to
    —OVID, THE ART OF LOVE,
    tone down the sexual element without getting rid of it. We may think we

TRANSLATED BY PETER GREEN
    see through them, but they are so pleasant to be around anyway that it does not matter. Trying to divide your life into moments in which you seduce and others in which you hold back will only confuse and constrain you. The combination of these
    Erotic desire and love lurk beneath the surface of almost every human en two elements, enchantment and surrender, is, then,
    counter; better to give free rein to your skills than to try to use them only essential to the love which
    in the bedroom. (In fact, the seducer sees the world as his or her bedroom.) we are discussing. . . .
    This attitude creates great seductive momentum, and with each seduction What exists in love is
    you gain experience and practice. One social or sexual seduction makes the surrender due to
    enchantment.
    next one easier, your confidence growing and making you more alluring.
    —JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET, ON
    People are drawn to you in greater numbers as the seducer's aura descends LOVE, TRANSLATED BY TOBY
    upon you.

TALBOT
    Seducers have a warrior's outlook on life. They see each person as a kind of walled castle to which