23 July 2007
How do you know?
)Published on July 23rd, 2007 @ 09:02:18 pm, using 293 words, 154 views
CALEB: Why do you love me?
ALEECE: I don’t know. I don’t think you’re meant to know why you love the people you love. If it’s explicable, if you can pin adjectives on it left and right then… you’re not really in love. If I could say I love you because you’re this or that, I’d make everything too… neat and… rational. It’s more a question of “How?” than “Why?” I think. “How do you know,” you know?
CALEB: How do you know?
ALEECE: Shit… (sighs) Knowing you’re within a hundred-foot radius is a roller coaster ride. It’s anxiety and euphoria… and I shouldn’t be telling you any of this. (Caleb starts to protest) Shhh… It’s anxiety and euphoria, sadness and despair, longing, jealousy, desire, anger, fear, helplessness, excitement, unfathomable joy, shortness of breath… It’s life at its most intense and magnified – all in one blow. Like a tsunami or a hurricane. (He caresses her cheek, she removes his hand gently) It’s exhausting. If everybody could do that to me, I’d be dead. Since only you can… I know.
CALEB: I think we should –
ALEECE: (interrupting) Did I tell you I’m seeing someone? I’m seeing someone. Tentatively. But I am. It’s kind of like a nicotine patch. Caleb patch. (She laughs at her own joke, he doesn’t.)
CALEB: Do I know him?
ALEECE: How could you possibly? Do you know me? I mean, really?
CALEB: When d’you meet him?
ALEECE: I’ve known him forever.
CALEB: (wistful) I’ve met all the people in my life.
(From The Weekend of Last Words)
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