Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

“Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of…”

“Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this re…”

“But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything …”

“For seven years he had lived bound to her, his every step subject to her scruti…”