lecture three:

“Love is its own justification.” What about the kind theoretically steeped in sin? Must or may you overcome it? It is, after all, the word that makes her fall in love. The Word? And how does she fall? Is this original sin, repeated again and again as she falls? If so, it seems categorically unfair to punish her suffering, since the Word has made her fall (or possibly just may’d her fall; permissive or conditional? Does it matter? Should it?). Does one ever do more than bandy with words? Does one ever do more than bandy with words?