Shakespeare broke the line at “Love is not love,” which harmonizes well with Kahn’s Romance or The End. There is a nothingness, an oblivion, running through this book, one as bleak as it is hopeful, as forbidding as it is liberating. There is darkness, for sure, but also humor and light, relaying of the mysterious truth and necessity of the fictions we tell each other and ourselves.
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