«A friend of mine told me about evenings out with her husband, during which they seduce each other all over again and she can’t wait to get home and jump on his beautiful body; but if on the way into the house he pauses to straighten the lids of the garbage cans, the spell is broken. She told him, and he now resists this urge.»

(Siri Hustvedt: A Plea for Eros)