Arnon Grunberg

Gardener

Triumph

Ellen Goodman in today’s International Herald Tribune: “I do not agree with Samuel Johnson that remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience. That dubious triumph belongs to the gardener, not the bride and groom.” If second marriage is the result of the triumph of hope over experience, what is the result of the triumph of experience over hope? Living in a bachelor apartment till retirement? And what about the gardener?