The Failure of Love

I was thinking about your general and that wonderful, those inset stories you get like a patchwork quilt where you have a story inside the story inside. And the thing with the general is that long long marriage. There's a wonderful story in a building called After Rain where there's a couple of being married for 40 years and he says he wants her to die first so that he can do the suffering. That's what he does in my house in Umbria. That's how she keeps herself alive with these stories that she knows are not true. It's a woven out of that. And very often it's about the stories we tell ourselves. I'm sometimes fantasy living in a