The first part of the book is somewhat like a secular view of the Christian's two natures. Harry's kind, artistic, organized side is the man while his wild, lonely, angry side is the wolf. Then it gets really weird. Harry goes to a masked ball, meets his love Hermine who is dressed as a man (so he has to dance with other women), realizes he loves her, at which point she changes her outfit and they dance till dawn. Then Pablo shows up and escorts them to a theater where each box represents a different fantasy. Harry goes off by himself to try a few. In one box there is a war going on between men and machines, so Harry sits in a tree and shoots at cars. In another he meets Mozart who tries to get him to laugh at himself. In another, all the women he has ever known fall in love with him. And in the last, he finds Hermine and Pablo sleeping naked in each other's arms, so he stabs Hermine to death. Then Pablo tells him he is destined to live forever, and Harry determines that he will eventually learn how to laugh. I was tempted to get the Cliff's Notes to find out what it was about, but decided I didn't care.