I met
Ferdinand de Saussure on a night like this. On love, he said, "I'm not so sure I even know what it is. No understanding, no closure. It is a nemesis.
You can't use a bulldozer to study orchids," he said, "so
we don't know anything you don't know. Anything, I don't know anything about love. But we are nothing, you are nothing, I am nothing without love." I'm just
a great composer and not a violent man, but I lost my composure and I shot Ferdinand, crying, "It's well and
kosher to say you don't understand, but this is for
Holland-Dozier-Holland!" His last words were...
His fading words were...