Rarely can such a slim book encompass such huge ideas and articulate them so eloquently. Additionally it is a brilliant love story with not a trace of sentimentality. (What, don't know what I'm talking about? Re-read the ending and determine to whom he is addressing the following story). A lapse or two into the farcical is really the only thing one can find to criticize here. It can bear up under, and deserves, several re-readings.