Where did you get your rings?

They’re the wedding bands from my previous marriages! I’ve been married. I’ve been loved. For life, for death, for eternity.

How do you see the Earth?

It’s a tiny detail of immensity, a drop of water in the cosmic ocean, a speck in nothingness. The Earth is nothing, you are nothing, I am barely anything.

Is there a god?

Of course there is a god, but he doesn’t give a damn about us. He created the world with a big fart, and then he went far away to create other worlds with other farts. God isn’t a genius or a being of reason; he’s a big farter.

What is your true color?

The color of your eyes, my dear.

Are there planets we cannot see?

There are more invisible planets in the sky than grains of sand on the beach in Bahia. They form necklaces, like pearls strung together. They are jewels, of varying size and shape, like evanescent gems.

Do you eat anything?

I eat the meteorites that gravity chooses to give me…

What will happen to you when you disappear?

No one will notice. Not even you. You’ll be making love, and when you’ve really come, you’ll look up at the sky, and I’ll no longer be there. Then you’ll make love again and forget me.

Would you like to read books?

Making love is fine, but reading a book…

In astrology, your influence is considered significant. Why is that?

Because I am the symbol of sequence, causality, efficiency. When I’m here, desires become reality. Would you like your desires to come true, right there, like that, in the snap of a finger? Then call me.

What does the sapphire mean to you?

It’s what’s at my heart, like you, this blue sapphire in the hollow of your thigh, in the hollow of your vulva, in the hollow of your vagina, placed against the cervix of your uterus, and against which the penis of the one who loves you strikes. Likewise, at my heart, there is this sapphire. Blue, like yours.

In memory of a Sufi patient, how do you define life in two words?

Around me.