The "vase" aspect of this thread is growing quite sad... Which is sadder, to be the broken vase, or to be the person who (either unwittingly or not) has broken it? The word "broken" implies a destructiveness (either accidental or not) that "analysis" and "questioning" does not. I hope we may all be able to analyse, question, explore, piece together and investigate love, or a vase, without necessarily having to break it first...
I don't think that breaking, whether necessarily destructive or not, need be always thought of as a 'bad' thing. It just is, in a way that, say, appreciation, isn't 'just'. Not sure what I'm getting at.
There's another aspect too, which is missing. Rather than deconstructing something, what about analysing its interaction with the wider environs?
Like one might study the interaction of a vase with a floor?
(This brings me to recall of the whole thermodynamics 'If you drop a wineglass on the floor, it will shatter; if you could just put into the broken fragments, as they lie there, the reverse of the energy they released upon shattering, the wineglass might reconstruct itself. Of course, this is impossible' spiel. But it's possibly a little negative in this context.)
