![]() Unperturbed by such pretentious imagery, he sleeps with her again and when he awakes to find her holding his hand in a transgressive act of dissent against Soviet alienation he feels obliged to marry her. One day Tereza returned again with a copy of Anna Karenina and Tomas sees her as a child in a bulrush and himself as Oedipus. ![]() In his inordinately deep way, Tomas was perplexed to find himself feeling something more for her than just a physical desire of objectification, so he says to himself, as we all do at such times, Einmal ist Keinmal, what happens once might as well never have happened. They made love and she came down with flu for 10 days. ![]() Ten days later she visited him in Prague. He had first met Tereza in a small town three weeks earlier. ![]() I have been thinking about Tomas, the Czech surgeon, for some years but only in the light of these reflections did I see him clearly. ![]()
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