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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Contemporary Classic Group Read, December 2012

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Rianto Dermawan
Oct 06, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fiction
Perkawinan dan persetubuhan adalah dua hal yang terpisah.
Perkawinan berlandaskan cinta kasih.
Persetubuhan ada karena hasrat nafsu birahi.
Hasrat muncul tidak selalu bersama cinta.
Cinta adalah metafora, kata yang terucap tersimpan dalam memory puisi.

Lakilaki yang menjadi suami seolah bayi kecil yang dimasukkan dalam keranjang.
Lalu dihanyutkan ke sungai yang mengalir menuju istana dimana sesorang menjemput.
Lalu mengambil, merawat menjadikannya pangeran.

Namun hasrat birahi tidak akan bertahan, akan ...more
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