Thursday, October 16, 2008

My wife

My wife. She looked straight at me one day. That afternoon, a little over a year ago, we made our son, and I thought that that’s how all people come together. A person arrives out of nowhere, for no special reason or for a reason that’s unclear, and offers himself or herself to someone else, who finds it perfectly natural, since that’s how all people come together, and in that great moment they both give themselves to each other for life, without looking back or thinking twice, they both give themselves to each other for life, since from that great moment on, the rest of life will be equally natural, inexplicable, and grand.
The Implacable Order of Things - By José Luís Peixoto
Nan. A Talese/Doubleday, 2008

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wishful thinking at best.