For you, language itself is a self-sufficient system.” No, it’s not that you don’t believe-it’s that you don’t care. You don’t believe it stands for anything. She said I had cynical ideas about language. “Svetlana said that I thought of myself as a robot who could act only negatively. “If you really think about who you are, and what you value?” “Don’t you think you pretending not to be elitist is disingenuous?” Svetlana said.
“I guess it feels elitist to look at it that way.” Valerie’s parents are engineers, she doesn’t have to work, but she’s still more like Fern than she is like us” You could go to Belgrade to come to terms with your life before the war, and I could go to Hungary to learn about Ivan. Isn’t it more about how much money our parents have? You and I can afford to pursue some narrative just because it’s interesting. “But I don’t think that’s because of our personalities,” I said. But, for us, the narrative has aesthetics, too.” That’s saying that narrative is just memory plus causality. If you didn’t have some kind of ongoing story in mind, how would you know who you were when you woke up in the morning?” “I still think everyone experiences their own life as a narrative. With you, there’s more instability and tension, because I know you’re making up a story, too, and in our story, I’m just a character.” That makes her and me unequal, but it also gives our relationship a kind of stability, and safeness. But she doesn’t compulsively rehash everything that happens to her in the form of a story. I don’t mean that she doesn’t have an inner life, or that she doesn’t think about the past or make plans for the future. “Everyone makes up narratives about their own lives.” Although obviously it’s also why we’re so attracted to each other.” I think that’s why we decided not to live together next year.
It’s because we both make up narratives about our own lives.
“For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,” Svetlana said.
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