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with you but what particular aspect did you have in mind I say.
Robert fixes me with two dead blue clots of jelly Of course this is
not for publication he says.
Of course .
We might begin with the question of jealousy .
That is at the heart of the matter as one might expect. Many
researchers have tried to evade this problem but any
r~sults
that do not
include jealousy as one of the fundamental variables will be hopelessly
jejeune. There is not one recorded instance where this did not have to
be dealt with . Unless of course you eliminate feeling feeling of any
kind and then you are well on the road
to
eliminating sexuality itself in
fact we have developed an equation . L
=
PI]
this is known as the Law
of Inconstancy . Love equals passion divided by
jealou~y
obviously a
very unstable condition . Among its correlaries is that jealousy bears a
positive relation to love the more the love the more the jealousy. The
only way
to
escape this consequence is to deny the fundamental
im–
portance ofsexuality itself and drift off into philosophical abstractions
an option today reserved to only the most puerile theorists. Add to the
Law ofInconstancy one the fact of differing interests between any given
love partners and two a basic conflict of interest between the sexes and
we begin to see the dimensions of the problem. Eve of course comes to
Israel with me . We join the community of The Wave together as we
have been together many years and whatever fluctuations in our rela–
tion made all major moves together. Between us there is much love and
there is much pain it is not a glib relation . According to the Law of
Inconstancy the love is not constant it comes and goes in rhythms in
waves also the pain is not constant. Rebekah. Oh these suntanned
softie Israeli girls let us not underestimate the sun. The sun is energy it
works through the flesh it energizes it sensualizes it is as though the
whole body were a genital. These suntanned girls running around The
Wave always in their bikinis generous bodies . A whole generation of
boys and girls generous to their bodies generous with their bodies
generating great waves of sexuality the generous generation of course
they 're working through their own hangups I'm not aware of that yet.
So Rebekah . Inevitable . The crest ofa long wave I ride on till it breaks.
At the same time great waves of pain between Eve and myself fights
threats mutual hysterias. This cannot be evaded and there is no solu–
tion . No solution except the Law ofInconstancy L
=
PI]
the greater the
