Love In The Time Of Cholera: Memorable Scenes

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This novel takes every reader on a journey of emotions. Each emotion lies in a different place and we travel at different speeds, sometimes revisiting. If you read while sitting and hold the book with one hand, your hand does not tire from the weight of the book but tires from the stiffness in your bicep, you can almost see the blooding coming to your arm. The stiffness comes from a strange excitement that you feel when something is about to happen, you know it, the rain has come. Still to choose a favorite scene from such a novel is difficult, there are just too many scenes of importance and one refrains from doing injustice to the beauty and caliber of any of the scenes by not choosing them. Still to complete the task at hand I must choose a scene or two. In hindsight when Florentino meets Fermina Daza after fifty-one years, nine months and four days in chapter one, I too along with Fermina Daza realized the magnitude of the drama she had provoked at the age of eighteen. However to call it a drama might be unfair, calling it truth, passion, obsession or craze might be more accurate, things without which no love can exist and even if it does exist, it can not survive, to put it simply, things without which love is not love. But to talk about the survival of love in the context of this book might be of no use because Florentino Ariza brings to us a kind of undying love that I am sure none of us have heard of before. Everything after their meeting seems to increase the stature of Florentino in my eyes, it is all proof of the truth in his passion, his sincerity, his love. His confession of love at her husband’s funeral is thus of great importance to me. Her crying later that night when she realizes for the first time the scale of Florentino’s love is also awakening for she had been blind to that all her life, she had called that love an illusion and swished
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