The Book Hanging from a Rope

Devoting yourself to one thing leaves no room for anything else; even when you give up everything, your determination never wavers. A son may take after his father, but even that can't overcome a shrewish wife. Fixating on one thing keeps you from straying down a dismal road. An old book, torn in half, is miraculously reunited after several years. Yet just as they find each other, they lose each other again. They deceive themselves, and their story does have a beginning and an end, but only half a book still hangs from the rope.