"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song / A medley of extemporanea / And love is a thing that can never go wrong / And I am Marie of Roumania." Dorothy Parker
"Only beginnings are truly beautiful." Annie Ernaux
These women are certifiably brilliant, but are we condemned to believe them, in the same way we're condemned to be free?
"The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men." F. Scott Fitzgerald
This quotation may not mean what you think it means. So, what does it mean?
Swiping a trope from just about every TV series: "It's complicated."
Who might she be, where is she, if she suddenly appears, how will who she is dictate how I should act? Are these even the right questions?
The subject is a woman; at issue is his perception of her "perfection"; the complication is the relationship between the two.
As a 2,600-year-old observation has it, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. With this in mind, let's get started.