Drunken Love by Que Son (to read list TXT) 📖

her, but failed. He always comes back each time to continue the unhappy life.

 

Like Romeo and Juliet, Adam and Eve will die. They will die because they have lived. They will not commit suicide, but die they will in some other way, in old age and sickness perhaps. And when that happens, their story would be more or less the same as Romeo and Juliet. The only difference is Adam and Eve are dying an extremely slow death. Two young people fall in love, torn apart for 27 years, then meet again for only fourteen hours in secret when they are middle-aged--only to separate again. It is inhumane. Shakespeare feels like shit.

 

The effort to improve upon the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with the story of Adam and Eve has failed. Shakespeare feels that no matter what he does and how much he wants to, external forces and uncontrollable circumstances always prevail: they pull the characters' strings like puppets; and Shakespeare, as a writer, can only report what happens. He cannot intervene or direct the courses of events and their outcomes.

 

Shakespeare decides he has reached the end. He feels exhausted as if drained of the last drop of energy and vitality. He has not accomplished the mission he has set out to do. The reincarnation has been wasted. The injustice he has done to Romeo and Juliet remains an injustice. He thinks there is no point in writing down the story of Adam and Eve, because a similar story, or very similar to it, has been done with The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet . There is nothing new to add.

 

Shakespeare collapses on the bed, and with trembling hands, pulls the blanket over his frail body. With each breath, steams come out of his nose and mouth. The room is freezing. And he is starving, having had no food for almost 24 hours. He feels he has no strength left, but does not have the will to get up and look for food. The “conclusion” of the story depresses him so much that he feels he does not want to go on anymore. In fact, if death comes now, he would not resist. His breaths become slower and shorter, and eventually they become gasps. He is losing consciousness. And the cold is accelerating the process. Like a corpse whose blood is being drained, his face now turns sickly white. Noises from the streets now become faint echo as if from a dreamy and different world, a far off reality.

 

The autopsy two days later says the man dies of exposure.

 

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