A pink heart-shaped kite is caught in a bare tree above a small empty bench on a grassy patch.

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Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This complains, with a wink, that affection lands in all the wrong places, everywhere except where it would be deserved or convenient. Calling that a flaw in God's sense of humour turns heartache into a cosmic joke about bad aim.

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