when héloïse in portrait of a lady on fire asked ‘do all lovers feel as though they’re inventing something?’
and when sarah ruhl said ‘there was once a very great american surgeon named halsted. he was married to a nurse. he loved her-immeasurably. one day halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. and so he invented rubber gloves. for her. it is one of the great love stories in medicine. the difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love. when i met ana i knew: i loved her to the point of invention.’
and when yehuda amichai said ‘we were such a good and loving invention. an airplane made from a man and wife. wings and everything. we hovered a little above the earth. we even flew a little.’
