[In Memoriam Eric Rohmer]
The quest for love,
like the quest for truth,
is a moral quest. Meaning
it is confused, and arbitrary, and never
complete. This is not to say
that love is truth. Only
that both are circumstantial,
that both demand
a certainty that neither
can attain.
A true love is a love
too good to be true.
So say that love is not true,
is never true, is always make-believe.
In the making of that belief lies
the essential wager,
the theorem of a possibility:
we tell ourselves we are in love
and it is the telling
that makes it a lie.
The quest for a beloved truth, then,
for the perfect
goodbye.
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9 comments:
Loved it! :)
RIP.
//this poem, particularly the closing line, makes me want to watch "Claire's Knee" again.
Anjali: Thanks
km: Thanks. That's quite a compliment.
Nice. But how do you decide punctuation in these things?
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the beginning reminded me of Ma Nuit chez Maud -his quest for Francine, and it is suggested in the end (of the movie) that they had a real "love marriage", or so they were telling themselves :)
(I did not knew he passed so recently...(: )
I inclination not acquiesce in on it. I assume precise post. Especially the appellation attracted me to read the whole story.
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