The Joke
“I didn't wake up until after eight, didn't remember any dreams, good or bad, didn't have a headache, but simply didn't want to get up; so I stayed in bed; sleep had erected a sort of wall between myself and my Friday-evening encounter; not that Lucie had dropped that morning out of my consciousness but that she had returned to her former abstract state. To her abstract state? Yes: When Lucie disappeared from Ostrava so mysteriously and cruelly, I had no practical way of going after her. And as ...time went on (after my release from military service), I gradually lost the desire to do so. I told myself that however much I'd loved her, however unique she was, she was inextricably bound up with the situation in which we met and fell in love. It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstances in which he met her and in which she lives, to try, with dogged inner concentration, to purify her of everything that is not her self, which is to say also of the story that they lived through together and that gives their love its shape.MoreLess
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