"Nothing that can be lost is worth possessing."

And since nothing that is not possessed can be lost, all that we do not possess is worth possessing as long as we do not possess it? Whereas only some of the things we possess are worth possessing? The conversation goes dead. If she offers you a pomegranite on a silvery tray, will you take it?

"WHY CAN'T PAINTING BE DONE FROM INSIDE THE CANVAS?"

Moonlight gathered more as the journey continued toward its continuation. Echoes of Beuchner and Freud and Camus slapping out of the monologue. The girl tripped and fell in a ditch.

"I have forgotten my mask, and my face was in it."

The simplistic life buried under consciousness. And love turned into joint narcissism. He is afraid. He screams at the girl.

"...expose yourself in the market-place; spew up your guts for the inspection of the least passer-by, vanish like water-like snow falling on a dark river..."

She thinks how nice it would be to be so conscious and sentient, yet transparent, moving in expanding spheres out and out, moving into time rather than with it, or away from it. Dying is nothing. "Passing the time" is where the sadness lies.

"EVERYONE IS SAYING: WHERE CAN WE HIDE WHEN THE WAR COMES? NO ONE AT ALL IS SAYING: WHERE CAN WE HIDE THE WAR?"

There is hope then when miracles and killings go unexplained? "I know what science is. Science cuts up little pigs in order that men may be free of disease. What are they cutting me up for? ... their hands are covered with blood!"

The girl thought, "I think this grotesquity is getting a bit out of hand. Dali, after all, went commercial." You don't have to care? You don't die if you don't care? Blood washes off. Only color doesn't.

"SINCE ONLY MADNESS CAN BRING THE SPLENDOR BACK."

Moonlight tastes his words. He is a man, not a writer. He'd like her to understand, standing right next to him, but he doesn't really care if she does. Moonlight wasn't a fraud.

"HE WAS NOT A POET AT ALL. SO IT IS WITH GOVERNMENTS. YOU CAN SENSE THE FRAUD."

Realities get easily confused. You have to specify which one you mean.