Olivier’s world represents the world of young people. It’s a simple world, in which everything revolves around seeking happiness in love and the suffering caused by unrequited love.

Olivier is depicted as a narcissist, but behind this hides the real problem of young people: their mistaken belief that they can improve their own worlds by building stage sets. During this stage of our lives we often believe our stage sets can impress other people. But this most often makes us encounter the worlds that only seek admiration of their own stage sets. This doesn’t lead to true love because love always requires the truth and not lies.

False worlds are often self-centered; they keep trying to improve themselves, not knowing that they can only be perfect without the stage sets. If they don’t succeed, this only makes them reject their own worlds even more, which results in their not accepting them.

Olivier doesn’t understand why his unhappy story keeps repeating. He doesn’t realize that it’s his fault and keeps blaming others.

The first world is simple and the story is well-worn. But here the reader must be instructed about the book’s structure, and too many complications would cloud the essence of it. The internal world described in metaphors is not equally accessible to everyone and so it’s important for the reader to gradually realize that taking the book literally doesn’t make any sense. Those who are prepared to drop the ideas and patterns they’ve believed in all their lives are richly awarded with new realizations.

Olivier’s most important mind is Emotion. The story thus outlines quite a few characteristics of this mind. His world is open: even a perfect stranger could enter the young man’s house and he wouldn’t feel uncomfortable at all. Emotion sees everything through rose-colored glasses and believes in everything, so it wouldn’t even occur to him that someone could do him any harm. The polished dance shoes, the ball, the chessboard, and other objects found in the house indicate what Emotion is good at. The photos on the wall show his way of thinking and the unfinished poster on the desk tells us where the young man works. You only have to connect the picture on the poster with one of the following stories.

All of this shows how the reader must understand the metaphors in this book. But they can only notice and connect most of the details when they reread the book and that’s why they also get the feeling that they’re reading a different book.

One of the important lessons in this story is the discovery that the knowledge that [psi] offers to humanity can be misused. Eros uses his understanding of falling in love imprudently because he wants to help his friend. This does have an effect, although only for a short while, but the misuse is punished. Life supervises all coincidences because the purpose of Life is not to fulfill all our wishes, but to give us a lesson from which we have to learn something. Happiness is just the reward for learning that lesson.