Journal January 4, 1964
January 4, 1964 (continued)—Temple marriage, of course, presents no such danger— or at least reduces it until it is quite negligible. I am certain that the awareness that I will have of the eternal and endless nature of our covenants will contribute mightily to my optimistic attitude toward our relationship: drawbacks to the status quo will be unconsciously suppressed, and the moment will never come when they will be called forth to poison our life together. [266]

If everyone’s put together pretty much the same way, this psychological phenomenon could be an interesting evidence that man was created with the idea in mind that he should be married on an eternal basis, and the shameful divorce situation of today could be cited as a demonstration of what happens when man introduces his own scheme of temporary agreements.
And here, on the Avenue de Neuilly in Neuilly-sur-Seine1 a pile of rubble that I fancy remains from World War II, two decades earlier. This particular bit may have been of more recent date: I never investigated the issue. But the scars of that conflict and of the Occupation were still evident, particularly upon the psyches of the French.

And we were chronically amused to see what we called “the Communist Front…”
1Outside Paris, to the west and a bit north. The Champs Élysées turns into the Avenue de la Grande Armée at what we then called the Place de l’Étoile; at the city limit, it becomes the Avenue de Neuilly.
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