It’s also, the narrator comes to realise, too crude, since every minute of the lover’s company must be factored into the equation: ‘We were together almost all day long. ![]() And each time it lasted maybe two or three hours so that would be anywhere from $33 to $50 an hour, which is expensive.ĭividing the cost of the escapade romantique by the quantity of sex is risibly anti-lyrical. And we made love, say, once a day on the average. The ticket was $600 and then after that there was more for the hotel and food and so on, for just ten days. ![]() ![]() In her early short story ‘Break It Down’, the unnamed narrator attempts to balance financial and emotional ledgers in the aftermath of a love affair:
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