“Every week, once a week, they had to have sex, as both he and this large pale woman, this Challah perceived that without sex their relationship would fold up according to some unspecified law of relationship.”
Sexual intimacy is a primary, indispensable constituent of Challah and Vladimir’s affair. A scarcity of sex would be unfavorable to the durability of their love.
“He tried to look encouraging.It was not uncommon for the mad Russians to give him their diagnosis right off the bat; some treated it almost like a profession or a calling in life.”
Branding psychosis as a ‘profession or a calling’ gathers that the psychotic individuals consider the instability an ultimate component of their beings. Thus, they are not perturbed by it.
“Those cretinous editors crossed out half of my words…It is American censorship, my friend. You don’t blot out the words of a poet!”
Rybakov is persuaded that his letter is artistically composed; thus, it should not be crossed out. His psychosis persuades him to confirm that he is a classic poet whose letter qualified for publication in New York Times.
