Little by little, the affair became a relationship which we longed to take to the limit, without really knowing what that meant.
I once spent an awkward night with a student who had been writing to me for a year and wanted to meet me.
Often I have made love to force myself to write. I hoped to find in the fatigue, the dereliction that comes after, reasons not to expect anything more from life. I hoped that orgasm, the most violent end to waiting that can be, would make me feel certain that there is no greater pleasure than writing a book.
We saw each other at weekends and, in between, came to miss each other more and more. He phoned me daily from a public phone so as not to arouse the suspicions of the girl he lived with. Neither she nor he, caught up in the routines of a couple living together too young, and worrying about exams, had ever imagined that making love could be anything other than a more or less slow-motion satisfaction of desire, that it could be a sort of continuous creation.
When, to my satisfaction and relief, he broke up with his girlfriend and she left the apartment, I got into the habit of staying at his from Friday night to Monday morning. He lived in Rouen, the city where I too had lived as a student, in the ’60s, but for years had only driven through to visit my parents’ graves. As soon as I arrived, abandoning in the kitchen, not yet unpacked, the bags of provisions I had brought, we made love.
The powerful chords of “Love Street” and the voice of Jim Morrison entered my consciousness again. We remained lying on the mattress, on the floor. Traffic was heavy at that hour. The beams of headlights flickered on the walls of the room through the high bare windows. I felt as if I had been lying on a bed since age 18 and never risen from it – the same bed but in different places, with different men, indistinguishable from one another.
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