Robert Trousseau 5

"Do you love me," asked Deborah.

As much as he could love, wanted to answer Robert. It was difficult to love. So much easier to like. Was love a pleasure or a difficult task?

"How was your day?" he asked Deborah.
"It was fine."

He kissed her and it felt warm and even spiritual. She had an incredibly generous heart and soul and he loved her for it.

"It is difficult to love," he answered.

He looked at his students. They were so fashionably dressed. They almost looked like delicacies, desserts. Why was his vision changing all of a sudden?

"If Ravelstein is Allan Bloom, what was so shocking about what he said, what he did. Why did he become a cultural phenomena in the late 1980's with the "Closing of the American Mind?" "

It wasn't a bad question. It was a general question.

"What do you think?" he asked the student.

"He was simply delocalizing the culture of sex, drugs, and rock and roll into ancient Greek or high European, British literature... wasn't he?"

"Is that what he was doing?" asked Robert Trousseau.

"Doesn't the rock and roll attitude come from Romantic musicians or Rimbaud? Isn't Rimbaud a continuation of the Romantic culture of Europe?" someone else asked.

"So how does that relate to Ravelstein?" he heard himself ask.