romance is not dead

i recently read as she climbed across the table by jonathan lethem, a science fiction/love story hybrid that is also funny and clever. one of the characters falls in love with a void, an opening into (what? a different space-time?) that selectively takes certain things while allowing others to pass through its opening and come out the other side. so, can “nothing” with taste actually be better than something? the answer is a resounding “yes”. let’s face it, things just suck. not to mention people. voids are the future. i predict disastrous effects on the valentine’s day card market.