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1 " Later! "
― André Aciman ,
2 " But it might have started way later than I think without my noticing anything atall. You see someone, but you don’t really see him, he’s in the wings. Or younotice him, but nothing clicks, nothing “catches,” and before you’re even awareof a presence, or of something troubling you, the six weeks that were offered youhave almost passed and he’s either already gone or just about to leave, andyou’re basically scrambling to come to terms with something, which,unbeknownst to you, has been brewing for weeks under your very nose andbears all the symptoms of what you’re forced to call I want. "
3 " Later!' The word, the voice, the attitude. "
4 " I called it the San Clemente Syndrome. Today's Basilica of San Clemente is built on the site of what once was a refuge for persecuted Christians. The home of the Roman consul Titus Flavius Clemens, it was burnt down during Emperor Nero's reign. Next to its charred remains, in what must have been a large, cavernous vault, the Romans built an underground pagan temple dedicated to Mithras, God of the Morning, Light of the World, over whose temple the early Christians built another church, dedicated -coincidentally or not, this is a matter to be further excavated to another Clement, Pope St. Clement, on top of which came yet another church that burnt down and on the site of which stands today's basilica. And the digging could go on and on. Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the ruins of subsequent restorations, there is no rock bottom, there is no first anything, no last anything, just layers and secret passageways and interlocking chambers, like the Christian Catacombs, and right along these, even a Jewish Catacomb. "