Book 2:Chapter 10: Use the Demonic Power of Words to Sow Confusion Summary and Analysis

Writing, Robert Greene explains, can be an important part of the seductive process. He includes an important story in which two lovers, even after they have come together, get further using letter writing as a powerful means of improving and advancing their relationship with one another. For some, the written word will be a fantastic key in the art of seduction, be it fleeting or enduring.

Earlier in the book, there was an entire seduction that was never physical, but purely literary. A man and a woman who never grew closer than to sit in the same poetry salon had inflamed one another's passions. A woman was left, unharmed, but aware that she had effortlessly perhaps seduced a man who had...