Yesterday I finished Hour Glass. I loved it. It is a memoir of a marriage - a reminder of the strength and fragility of love and life. The fortune and ill-fortune of our fates set against the backdrop of the fleeting passage of time.
"We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entrwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or intuitions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention. Lovemaking is not a third thing but two-in-one. John Keats can be a third thing, or the Boston Symphony Orchestra, or Dutch interiors, or Monoply. For many couples, children are a third thing." Later in the essay he writes, "sometimes you lose a third thing."
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