If anything could be more embarrassing than dying while having sex, it might be being preserved in flagrante delicto for millions of years so that members of an advanced species could dig you up, gawk at you, and write a journal paper about
your final romantic encounter.
Borrowing its title from the
final lines of This Is How You Lose Her — Junot Díaz's collection of short stories chronicling the fallout of infidelity — The Half - Life of Love explores the melancholic experience of
romantic encounter: the heady sensation of first looks, the affective ebb of time, and the traces of a lover's absence.