Love

All spouses who, after many years, have grown to love each other in fathomless ways, actually, all of them, love the same person, the same everyman that dwells hidden beneath all the layers of individual personality, identity, history.

Theodore Zeldin

I've just begun Zeldin's An Intimate History of Humanity. He writes well enough: simple sentences and simple diction; doesn't hide indecision behind a lot of fluff. I like the meditations. They remind me a bit of Annie Dillard. And the seriousness of the themes (work=slavery; conversation between the sexes; loneliness) brings Thomas Nagel to mind. My only complaints revolve around lack of depth and direction -- the meditations seems to peter out rather than conclude.