A man's love is different from a woman's

Clemmie 2022-03-23 08:01:04

Her father said, it's illusion, that's an illusion. And she didn't even think about it. A year later, when she saw him again, she said, it's illusion, love is an illusion. And he said, that's not an illusion, that's geometry, that's algebra. The story is just like that. After that, in her life, he became a shadow, a ghost, he is not a person, he is a shadow...he is a ghost. What does someone else's shadow have to do with her? But if it is one's own shadow, the shadow of one's heart, it would be a bit bad. Who can cut off the shadow? If it was a soul, it would be even more terrifying, wouldn't it be a fate?

The stories of all those women in his narrative come together, frantic and unreal, but the reality of many women's existence.

This is so real and fantasy, and the extreme sadness and joy actually have the color of comedy and carnival, and the reality and emotion of existence are connected in series. The ending can't be regarded as a real deduction, or it has finally reached a pure ideal fantasy - the endless perfection before death.


Love in the Time of Cholera


She stood there, looking at him from a distance,
unable to take a step forward,
she hid behind a tree, escaping his searching eyes:

is this her love?
This thin and melancholy man,
what does those words of love have to do with him?

She turned away.
She saw him, but not love, and
turned around in the most beautiful years.

The mist of the moon shrouded the magnolia in the garden.
Her beauty was like the blade of a petal, cutting
off the dream. She closed the screen window of the balcony.

She's a lucky woman,
stagnating into old age, surviving
daily refills and bathroom smoking.

Among countless women,
In different towns and rivers,
continue to write love letters to one person.

When they met again,
he saw her in his life, and
she saw the love between him and her before their first meeting

, forgotten for many years.
It takes a lifetime to show love.
They set sail in their boats and hoisted yellow flags,

the sign of cholera. Long rivers,
deep forests, to the last years of death,
they drift away.


2007

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  • Milton 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    Fermina's dad said: "Love is illusion." To the point. Love comes from self-imagination, marriage comes from weighing the pros and cons. At the end of the fairy tale, love is farther than death.

  • Lorena 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    Except for the doctor, the protagonists all looked odd to me and didn't fit my aesthetic. And this kind of love seems to be soul-stirring, but it is actually very terrifying. Love is also like a kind of creature. It should have a period of birth and death. It should not be immortal without any encouragement. This is a mutation.

Love in the Time of Cholera quotes

  • Florentino Ariza: [updating his diary of conquests] Number 2: The widow Nazareth... Wouldn't stop talking about her dead husband... Very disturbing !

  • Fermina Urbino: Florentino Ariza is not a human. He is a shadow.