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That's the point, isn't it? Love and beauty overlap.

Ultimately, though, you say that Lou is "studying not love but consciousness." That's your whole oeuvre right there, isn't it?

It is.

You ask, "Because the lovers forget and reimagine each other, is love then wholly false? How false? Thirty percent? Sixty percent? Five?"

Forty percent.

Is that your answer?

No, all my books are a series of questions.

So how's your Ping Pong these days?

The hand remembers. It's a really good way to get to know someone quick.

Daniel Asa Rose is a frequent interviewer for Book World.

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