*Love in the Time of Cholera

love in the time of cholera

how long can it last—this insistence that there is no story, but love, there is no romance but the story, itself, how long will they confront death with this kind of assurance—

“ ‘how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?’ he asked.”

and it’s been “beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love.”
far beyond the trickery, the courting rituals of the artist, beyond the barricade of GOD, beyond the throes of the intellect, through the romantic indulgence in suffering, the catharsis of war, “…long enough to know that love was always love, anytime anyplace…”

here is the confrontation, this is the gaping divide between a plea and a prophecy—
“Forever”


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