This book is about the tension between how singular the manifestation of love is and what we assume, often wrongly, about the idea of togetherness. To know the difference means to know the heart of the other. To know the heart of man is, in fact, the highest, sages and artists tell us. But who has this gift? Lovers do. Lovers share a passion that exceeds common understanding, and yet their acting on it can be fraught.
While knowing the heart of the other is the premise for the experience of grand passion, this very knowledge is also the price we pay for the image of an infinite love. But what if lovers fail at relationships? This book is an investigation into what happens to the knowledge of the heart when basic communication breaks down, or when we realize that all the assumptions we make about the other are wrong.
Borrowing Shakespeare’s passionate lovers, Romeo and Juliet, Camelia Elias weaves a personal story of love and loss through encounters with the Tarot. At the cartomancy table we also encounter Werner Herzog’s films, Klaus Kinski’s acting, Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, and professors of Psychology, Renaissance, and Religious Studies.
In this book Juliet drives a sports car without crashing, and Romeo commits harakiri, Japanese style, while reading tomes such as Thinking with Demons. This book is an homage to the love whose image exceeds even that of the imagination.
This book comes in three editions: fine binding, paperback, and ebook. The fine binding edition is available directly from the publisher, Eye Corner Press. The paperback and ebook versions are available from all online stores.
Table des matières
Counterpoint 10
Under the balcony 11
Punctuation sheet 22
The assurance of love 23
In love and war 32
Two cures for love 33
Romeo wants a drive 48
Juliet’s armor 49
November 54
Juliet is 53 55
Conquest of the useless 62
The heart of man 63
Thinking with Demons 74
Return to passion 75
Hard rain 84
The cognac magician 85
The eleventh gate 96
Thresholds 97
Satisfaction 106
The Knights Templar 107
All that is more 116
Death on wheels 117
Redemption 134
‘Give me my Romeo’ 135
References 140
Acknowledgments 142
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