Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

I never really got over the fun of making letters.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition