Sunamerica Vaeiable Annuities

The use of comparison

Parmigianino, Portrait of a young, c. 1523 (Louvre)

"It seems that the truly practical, this good man really loves without reservation or taken seriously. A child hides under the table to the room of parents - when they are not at home, the place of all the adventures of a teenager, dreaming of a clock, a young man with a gold watch, and with the right woman, being a man, and with gold watch and a woman, dreams of a good position, and when it finally managed to close this small circle of desires, ranging peacefully among each other like a pendulum, your provision of unfulfilled dreams does not seem to have decreased a bit. If you want to rise, thereafter have recourse to a simile. Apparently, when snow comes to dislike, compared with female breasts gleaming, and when they start to bore his wife's breasts, compared with glistening snow, would be shocked if one day's nipples would see it actually processed pigeon spikes or coral embedded in the flesh, but this excites poetically. Is able to turn everything around - the snow skin, the skin of petals, the petals in sugar, powdered sugar and powdered snow again trembling because, apparently, his only concern is to see something else different, which is proof that you can not resist a long time in any place where you are. "

Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930-1943), quoted by Philippe Jacottet, The walk in the woods, pp. 78-79 (Four, 2011). Translation Rafael-José Díaz.