Love & Death |
Sonja Let’s say that there is no god and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses. What prevents you from murdering somebody?
Boris Well, murder is immoral.
Sonja Immorality is subjective.
Boris Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
Sonja Not in any rational scheme of perspective.
Boris Perspective is irrational; it implies immanence.
Sonja But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomenae exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract and empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur, in the thing itself or of the thing itself!
Boris Yeah, I’ve said that many times.
Sonja I guess you could say I’m half-saint, half-whore.
Sonja Boris, you’re a coward!
Boris Yes, but I’m a militant coward.
Sonja Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality!
Man Not as an essential extension of alter-logical existence!
Sonja Can we not talk about sex so much?
Boris Are you scared of dying?
Sonja Scared is the wrong word. I’m frightened of it.
Boris An interesting distinction.
Boris Nothingness. Nonexistence. Black emptiness.
Sonja What did you say?
Boris I was just planning my future.
Sonja Sex without love is an empty experience.
Boris Yes, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.
Sonja I want to have children with you.
Boris What kind?
Sonja Little children.
Boris Of course — the big ones are mentally slower.
Boris What would Socrates say? All those Greeks were homosexuals. Boy, they must have had some wild parties. I bet they all took a house together in Crete for the summer.
Boris Some men are heterosexual, and some men are bisexual, and some men don’t think about sex at all — they become lawyers.
Boris There’s been a mistake! I know; I made it!
Boris In fact, now that I think of it, I shall run through the valley of the shadow of death, because you get out of the valley quicker that way.
Sonja To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer; to be happy is to love; to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.
Sonja The last traces of the shimmering dusk are setting behind the quickly darkening evening, and it’s only noon.
Boris If it turns out that there is a god, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.
Boris The key here is to not think of death as an end, but think of it as a very effective way of
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