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Jul 23rd 2023!⃝It's about many marriages. As soon as the hoopla is over, the husband feels the need to escape the marriage for something: adventure, infidelity, or ambition; he feels trapped by marriage and unready to settle down. In this case, while doing laundry the husband is taken in by someone delusional, led on a wild goose chase. Recovering from his wanderlust and delusion, he returns to Isis, his wife, who is sleeping peacefully. She awakens, and asks him about his adventure, which he treats casually as if he'd gone out for a pack of cigarettes, returning only when he'd smoked the entire pack. Just as casually, she asks whether he plans to stay, and he sheepishly answers yes, if she'll have him.
The husband's peroration - what drives me to you drives me insane - is about the duality of marriage: a compulsion that at times is maddening for that reason alone.
