Sentámo-nos ao lado um do outro e eu fui passando as páginas durante quinze minutos, um estimulante quarto de hora em que ambos aprendemos alguma coisa – ela, pela primeira vez, acerca de Velázquez, e eu, de novo, acerca da deliciosa imbecilidade da luxúria. Tanta conversa! Mostro-lhe Kafka, Velázquez... porque fazemos estas coisas? Bem, temos de fazer alguma coisa. Estes são os véus da dança. Não confundir com sedução. Não se trata de sedução. Aquilo que estamos a disfarçar é o que nos levou ali: pura luxúria. Os véus velam o ímpeto cego. [...] A grande partida biológica que nos pregam é que nos tornamos íntimos antes de sabermos alguma coisa acerca da outra pessoa.
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''We went down the spiral steel staircase to my library stacks, and I found a large book of Velázquez reproductions, and we sat side by side and turned the pages for 15 minutes, a stirring quarter-hour in which we both learned something -- she, for the first time, about Velázquez, and I, anew, about the delightful imbecility of lust. All this talk! I show her Kafka, Velázquez… why does one do this? Well, you have to do something. These are the veils of the dance. Don't confuse it with seduction. What you're disguising is the thing that got you there, the pure lust. The veils veil the blind drive. Talking this talk, you have a misguided sense, as does she, that you know what you're dealing with. But it's not as though you're interviewing a lawyer or hiring a doctor and that whatever's said along the way is going to change the course of action. You know you want it and you know you're going to do it and nothing is going to stop you. Nothing is going to be said here that's going to change anything.
The great biological joke on people is that you are intimate before you know anything about the other person."
Texto: P. Roth
Música: Napoleon coste 25 study No.22 de Op.38
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