i want to tell her that everything i know about her fascinates me and everything i don't know about her excites me. i want us to be without restraint. i want to show her and be shown the meaning of unknownness. i want us to see what two bodies can do if you add just a few drops of chaos and a splash of eternity.
life is eternal in the same way that our field of vision is without limit. if you cannot understand this, i cannot teach you. to understand is what is most difficult of all and of all the worthiest cause.
—and now there is music all around me, through me, a zone of indiscernibility between us —and the details of all these worlds i walk through become such tiny temples —and lo, all the texture of my life turned to gratitude and they said: