I'm staring out the window, feeling nervous again, but this time from inside the building looking out. I've made it in this home of desire and I want to stay in. I feel, however, the weight of Sait's stare from behind me on my shoulders. "You are not simply a man of desire, don't fool yourself: you feel longing, you feel love, and you fear it." Yes, I fear it: It comes to me like an exilirating tidal wave, picking me up out of nowhere and carrying me with amazing force. I can't resist it, but I try hard not to let it carry me and in my struggle find more misery than joy in the experience, fearing the inevitable abandonment of love at the end. Abandoned by the tidal wave, I'm left alone - alone with a woman I no longer love.
Sait allows wisdom to get the better of her: "You need not fear it, you need not fear hurting people either - if love is to abandon you, then so be it: it has done so countless times before throughout history. Your fear is of the pain you will cause and the misery you will feel: the fear of causing pain making you choose to stay with misery, until it's simply too much. The path for you is one in which you learn to accept that you cause pain." I can't accept that and Sait knows that.
Sophie reassures me that the buidling still holds a lot of promise for me. She encourages me to look deep inside and fight what I feel, remove myself from the window. "The longing, she says, is dangerous" and she knows I agree. Just look at the scenario Sait put forth. To be fair Sophie never excludes the possibility of leaving the building, but she insists it only be even considered when the object of my desire fully meets a certain number of yet to be fully defined criteria. Sophie is easy to agree with, she speaks my mind. Sait encourages me to look at the beauty out there, "Take a risk! Close your eyes and enjoy love!"
