“It’s okay. Maybe she needs some time to grow away from being a Biadklang. Maybe she needs to get rid of my name completely. I can be alone. I need a relationship with myself anyhow. Maybe I’ll see her again and maybe not. Anyhow, there’s some Aristotle and Plato I want to read-a textbook on tenebrism I need to get through for my Caravaggio class. I’ll have to begin my doctoral thesis shortly.”
“Hollow ideas.”
“To the impetuousness of human feelings, hollow; but not to the mind. There the theory of forms is sensed as eternal. Take me home. Drop this kid off wherever he wants first.”