Health can be squandered, but not stored up.
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
Money: power at its most liquid.
The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.