The Appointment: A Novel (Bestselling Fiction)

by Katharina Volckmer

And plus, you are a member of a heavily persecuted minority, so I am sure you have lots of children; they are your form of rebellion. I get that, it must have been such a triumph for you to get your wife pregnant and think of all the people who tried to not make this possible. So, in a way, you are like me and think of Hitler when you orgasm.

There is a hygiene of love, don’t you agree? Just like I cannot go smearing my blood around, like they have invented endless products to make sure women don’t lose their dirty blood in public, I also cannot go around and just love where I see fit. The blood we see on the pavement could be anyone’s; it’s not immediately clear whether we are dealing with a person or an animal, and we don’t even know how it got there, whether there is a culprit or whether they turned against themselves because they just couldn’t handle it anymore.

am not saying that I should be allowed to let loose in a playground, but we have such a clear idea of what a love story is that if you go and try to find a different way to use your heart, they will say that you too have sick rats in your basement and that you drank their blood when they least expected it. But it’s their own