Thought I would post this. Goes along with the theory that H is addicted to his A.
The brutal reality of the unfaithful man’s ruminations is given airing in the following poem by Robert Browning:
One more devils-triumph and sorrow for angels, One wrong more to man, one more insult to God! Never glad confident mourning again! All’s over, then; does truth sound bitter As one at first believes?
When a man has lost his mistress, in Browning’s view, it is clear that he experiences a sudden jolt back to reality. The reality of what he has done, and the moral judgment he imposes on himself. This self reporting of infidelity, although it may well be involuntary and due to the fact of being caught in the act, describes the inner journey of the man accepting his actions and then accepting that he was deluded into thinking his happiness lay elsewhere. He has lost his mistress, and with this reality check, his illusion vanishes. Still, the journey has not yet arrived at regret, as up till this point, he merely longs for the bliss of his illusion, which he can have no more.
Me 53 H 50 D16, D29 M 22 years bomb 7/08 INH - alien pod replaces H 8/08 - OW (direct report), I work there also bomb II - H moves 10/1 expose ow 10/22 D to be final 9-09