elegy

Shaina 2022-04-20 09:02:51

As a college professor, he never fucked with female students before grading classwork to avoid being charged with sexual harassment. David is pretentious about his feelings, and his close friend in life today is a schoolgirl from 20 years ago. But things have changed since he met Consuela, 24. He loves the meaning of her youth and flesh, which is like the perfect body in the painting. But he couldn't believe he could have her forever, he thought there would always be younger and better men who would take her away. So every time Consuela invited him to see her relatives and friends, David always refused, refused to enter her life...

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  • George O'Hearn: Beautiful women are invisible.

    David Kepesh: Invisible? What the hell does that mean? Invisible? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman, she stands out. She stands apart. You can't miss her.

    George O'Hearn: But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yeah, we're so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside.

  • David Kepesh: I think it was Betty Davis who said old age is not for sissies. But it was Tolstoy who said the biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. Old age sneaks up on you, and the next thing you know you're asking yourself, I'm asking myself, why can't an old man act his real age? How is it possible for me to still be involved in the carnal aspects of the human comedy? Because, in my head, nothing has changed.