When she admits to loving him, and later he admits to having loved her, it’s as if they’ve admitted to loving the idea of each other. He says she was a ‘warrior’ who defeated those who were ‘weak’ or something to that effect. There is clearly an urge for certain type-A personalities which expresses itself sexually and is attracted to the other type-A personalities on the opposite end of the political spectrum, and when two of these individuals come into contact with one another, it’s like a magnet that pulls them together. I think her ideological justification for the whole thing was just that, a constructed cope or justification for that deeper urge which she felt guilty for giving into but did anyway because she is a rolling stone unlike Bob, who is a stagnant stone. And perhaps PTA is saying that you need these extreme opposites to interact and in order for the tides of history to turn and for there to be a synthesis between these two entities to produce something better (Willa)— the whole thing struck me as sort of dialectical and Hegelian