Florentino Ariza has had 622 serious relationships (combo pack with sex) apart from numerous fleeting liaisons before he is able to embrace the only woman whom he loved with all his heart and soul. And that embrace happens “after a long and troubled love affair” that lasted 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days. Florentino is in his late 70s when he is able to behold, and hold as well, the very body of his beloved Fermina, who is just a few years younger than him. She now stands before him with her wrinkled shoulders, sagged breasts, and flabby skin that is as pale and cold as a frog’s. It is the culmination of a long, very long, wait as far as Florentino is concerned, the end of his passionate quest for his holy grail. “I’ve remained a virgin for you,” he says. All those 622 and more women whose details filled the 25 diaries that he kept writing with meticulous devotion have now vanished into thin air. They mean nothing now that he has reached where he longed to reach all his life. The
That's true. :)
ReplyDelete[ Smiles ] Hmmm. I never went out with the intentions of getting hurt on the playing field.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your philosophy about games, Tomichan.
Yes :-)
ReplyDeleteAhem...I played for the love of it and the high it gives and got hurt many a time. And I liked your dot-connecting game here ;)
ReplyDeleteVery true..
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDeleteSo true.
ReplyDeleteso true .
ReplyDeleteso true and couldn't have been perfectly described..
ReplyDelete