Meaning of "To tell her"?
Hello everyone. I am reading a novel, and I came across this expression. Could you please let me know its meaning?
The pleasure of peeling back the years and laying myself bare before her aroused me. The pleasure of telling her anything about me aroused me.
To tell her: For a moment I made myself fear that I was only imagining you were with me tonight. Want to know why?
I know why.
- André Aciman, Eight White Nights, Second Night
This is a novel published in the United States of America in 2010. This novel is narrated by the nameless male protagonist who meets Clara at a Christmas party in Manhattan. The next day, the protagonist runs into Clara standing in front of the movie theatre. (He had mentioned to Clara during the party of the previous night that he would go to the Rohmer festival.) So they go to the movies together, and during the intermission when Clara went outside for a phone call, the protagonist thinks how he missed her all day.
Here, I wonder what the underlined expression means.
Especially I wonder how it is connected to the previous sentence. Would that perhaps be connected to "the pleasure of telling her"...? (But it is "to tell her" rather than "telling her", so I am not sure.)
Thank you very much for your help. 
Top answer
Curious Reader Here, I wonder what the underlined expression means. It means the writer doesn't know what he's doing. I can't make sense of it, unless by the colon he means a whole paragraph that he didn't actually put on the page.
- Curious Reader Here, I wonder what the underlined expression means.
- It means the writer doesn't know what he's doing.
- I can't make sense of it, unless by the colon he means a whole paragraph that he didn't actually put on the page.
- Maybe it works in the mish-mash of French, Italian, Greek, Ladino and Arabic that is sloshing around in his head.
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Curious ReaderHere, I wonder what the underlined expression means.
It means the writer doesn't know what he's doing. I can't make sense of it, unless by the colon he means a whole paragraph that he didn't actually put on the page. Maybe it works in the mish-mash of French, Italian, Greek, Ladino and Arabic that is sloshing around in his head.
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