Part One: “The Conciousness of Continuity”

Kundera addressing a Concenration of Events:  

It brings to mind the libertine bohemia of my youth. My friends used to declare that there was no more gorgeous experience for a man than to make love to three different women in a single day. Not as the mechanical workings of an orgy, but as a personal adventure resulting from some unexpected confluence of opportunities, surprises, lightening seductions. That “three woman day”—extremely rare, dreamlike—had a dazzling charm which, I see today, consisted not in some athletic sexual performance but in the epic beauty of a rapid series of encounters in which each woman, seen against the backdrop of the one before, seemed even more unique, and their three bodies were like three long notes played each on a different instrument and bound together in a single chord. It was a quite particular beauty, the beauty of the sudden density of life.