In the spirit of Eternal Sunshine let us forget that there was a Romantic Period (1785-1830) where poets Keats and Byron expounded upon the virtues of love, and presume that the era began in 1984 with Huey Lewis.

Don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love

A crude beginning to the era – kind of wordy – but it was a start.

Paul Thomas Anderson got a bit closer in 2002's Punch Drunk Love culminating with this condensed gem: “I have a love in my life and it makes me stronger than you can possibly imagine.”

Today, the hailigah scribe Charlie Kaufman (with Michael Gondry) finds the essence of love with a single word in his magnificent script for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The word