There is an old division in the history of mathematics between those who more or less pushed for a picture of continuous matters and those who thought discontinuously. Calculus and the analysis of falling objects, such as cannon balls shot from a gun, is probably a good representative of continuous process thinking while digitalization, with pictures being digitized into pixels and "moving" images on a long film of scenes, exemplifies separate and distinct but tiny or brief effects.
Lovers can be viewed as either phenomenon, too. He loves her steadily and continuously. She loves him that way, too. Even when he sees her in an error state and even when he is a bother, love flows, recognizably and consciously. Looked at discontinuously, she glances his way and he receives a signal that she likes him. He passes by her and slides his hand along her in a tangible message of love and appreciation. His ears transmit her love into his heart from occasional words and her voice. Nerve impulses travel from her eyes to her heart as she watches him leave for work.
Cyrano de Bergerac created spells of love with his word choice but many lovers could repeat "Hello there" every time they speak to each other and still transmit affection. In fact, simple, basic messages of very mundane content are exactly what lovers often use to start up a blaze between them. She looks him in the eye and says "Hi" and that is a unit of shocked power that hits him. He looks back and repeats the same content and his "Hi" lasts her all morning.
What happened? Nothing. Everything. She spoke, stoked him, stroked him. He spoke. He might not have. He might have ignored her unit of love. He didn't. He was warmed by her. He spoke. He mumbled and she didn't clearly hear exactly what he said. No matter. He delivered a unit of affection and she treasures it. Poetry, artful composition matters, don't kid yourself. However, that is not the meat. The meat is the signals and the signalers.
