Bunuel_Luis_My_Last_Breath

Love and Love AffairsIN THE 19205, while I was living at the Residencia, therewas a strange suicide in Madrid that fascinated me for years.In the neighborhood of Amaniel, a student and his young fianceekilled themselves in a restaurant garden. They were known tobe passionately in love; their families were on excellent termswith each other; and when an autopsy was performed on the girl,she was found to be a virgin.On the surface, then, there seemed to be no obstacles; in fact,the "Amaniel lovers" were making wedding plans at the time of theirdeaths. So why the double suicide? I still don't have the answer,except that perhaps a truly passionate love, a sublime love that'sreached a certain peak of intensity, is simply incompatible with lifeitself. Perhaps it's too great, too powerful. Perhaps it can exist onlyin death.As a child, I felt intense love, divorced from any sexual attraction,for both boys and girls. As Lorca used to say, "Mi alma ni& y ninoJ'-I have an androgynous soul. These were purely platonic feelings; I