Henry delivers a profound meditation on the nature of intimacy and the vulnerability of being truly known by a partner. He explores the devastating shift from the security of shared 'carnal knowledge' to the agonizing pain of betrayal where every mundane object becomes a trigger for grief.
HENRY: It's to do with knowing and being known. I remember how it stopped seeming odd that in biblical Greek knowing was used for making love. Whosit knew so-and-so. Carnal knowledge. It's what lovers trust each other with. Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face. Every other version of oneself is on offer to the public. We share our vivacity, grief, sulks, anger, joy . . . we hand it out to anybody who happens to be standing around.
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