Megalomania

Ameratus Pathum Laborium

Celine: So you’re telling me that successful relationships are made in heaven? Not founded on the daily practicality of two people being prepared to tolerate the imperfections of one another?

Robert: It’s not successful relationships, Celine. It’s love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place that we don’t know about.

Celine: So then you also reject the idea that love is merely an emotional adaptation to a physical necessity?

Robert: Completely.

Celine: Are you serious?

Robert: Fate intervenes in people’s lives.

Celine: In ours, for instance.

Robert: Fate brought us together. Kept us together. We were destined for one another.

Celine: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.

Robert: But that’s part of the beauty of it. It’s inexplicable, unpredictable and absolutely beyond control or understanding.

Celine: But you nearly got killed.

Robert: But I didn’t. And here we are.

Celine: Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?

Robert: None at all.

Celine: And you realize that it’s absurd and irrational?

Robert: I know that.

Celine: Then why do you believe it?

Robert: Because, Celine, I’m a dreamer.

Celine: Well, I guess that makes two of us.