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WCDT strips 3701-3705 (19th to 23rd March 2018)
ckridge:
--- Quote --- If one continues it too far into adulthood, though, you wind up like Sven Bianchi.
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It occurs to me that I have known ones who ended up like Sven, or like this guy.
The years drifted over like clouds in the heavens.
The ladies went by me like snow on the wind.
I charmed and I cheated, deceived and dissembled,
And I sinned and I sinned and I sinned and I sinned.
But I said to myself, "Ah, they none of them see
There's part of me pure as the whisk of a wave.
My lady is late but she'll find I've been faithful,
And I'll know when I love by the way I behave."
At last came a lady both knowing and tender,
Saying "You're not at all what they take you to be."
I betrayed her before she had quite finished speaking,
And she swallowed cold poison and jumped in the sea.
And I say to myself when there's time for a word,
As I gracefully grow more debauched and depraved,
"Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved."
-- Peter Beagle
However, I have known just as many to come out like Tai, deeply experienced at managing affairs of the heart and with an awesome A game.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 25 Mar 2018, 07:21 ---What I can't bring myself to do is to talk about Faye's attractiveness as if she were a real person, but in a manner in which I would never talk about a real person. If I am attracted to her, I am pretending she is real, and if I am pretending she is real, I should treat her like she's real.
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Pretty sure you weren't alluding to me here. But FWIW, I actually have a good friend who is a lot like Faye, both physically and also in the way she tends to relate to others. If she's your friend, she is more likely to punch you than to hug you, but she also would probably not hesitate to kill to protect you. She's not my type at all, and we'd make a horrible couple, but I still find her very attractive. So for me it is extremely easy to pretend that Faye is real. Almost too real, in fact.
Tova:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 25 Mar 2018, 19:47 ---But I don't think that's what's being mooted as a solution to the Brun/Clinton/Eliot triangle. Because neither of the guys seem to be interested in no-strings sex, with each other or with Brun. The two guys seem to be keen to have a relationship with Brun that is close, and if they where aware of each other, would need to be happy that the closeness they shared with Brun was held in common. That's where it seems (and again, I am not Polyamorous so this is just my limited understanding) to be a polyamorous relationship- multiple partners with a consenting, deep relationship in common. It would meet your initial requirements- the relationship would be neither shifting, nor non-committed.
This of course assumes Brun is up for this. She's a pretty closed book, frankly, so this whole thing all supposition.
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Thank you for nudging the thread back towards its topic...
I'm not sure whether Brun is interested in a romantic relationship in any form, but who knows?
BenRG:
FWIW, it's my feeling that Clinton doesn't believe that Brun is either interested in or fully understanding of romantic partnership. As slightly creepy as it is, he's just consoling himself by being in Brun's vicinity and admiring her from afar.
As somewhat condescending as it is, Brun would have to make an unambiguous first move (i.e. would have to say 'I am doing this because I wish to date you') to get Clinton out of this mindset.
Emperor Norton:
Eh, some poly people are arrogant snots about it. I'm poly myself, and often find myself eye rolling at other poly people making it sound like some of idealized lifestyle or that it is "the way we should all be". Some people it fits, some people it doesn't. We should all just be who we are.
That being said, even as a poly person, the solution to this love triangle being a triad (or a V) seems sort of contrived. None of these characters have ever shown any inclination towards being poly, for all of them to suddenly be like "yes, this is cool" seems super unrealistic.
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