Love is possible even when it’s impossible; the absurd is normal; one can also make love to characters in books and live in a text. Short light-hearted stories about defects, journeys, books and people, efforts and failures, feelings and insensitivities, faults in the system; about what happens in the heads and beds of above-average men and average women; and principally about the fact that “everything is otherwise, and even that otherwise is otherwise”.