June 19th, 2006

Love in the Time of Cholera I

Posted in Excerpts by Ishan Dubey

“I adore you because you made me a whore.”

Said in another way, she was right. Florentino Ariza had stripped her of the virginity of a conventional marriage, more pernicious than congenital virginty or the abstinence of widowhood. He had taught her that nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

-Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

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  1. Deepak says:

    Hmmmm, different

    November 26th, 2006 at 04:20 pm

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