This is such a Mary Renault move, this movement from compassion to “we belong together,” and here is in Mary Renault it’s the beloved realizing the strength of the lover’s feelings and basically acquiescing to this state of affairs: you adore me, and I love you I guess. I’m not mad keen on this dynamic ever, and I like it even less when the lover is the woman in a heterosexual romance: she’s already so disadvantaged by society, she ought at least to have the advantage of a husband who adores her rather than one who allows himself to be adored.
Yes, exactly!
Haha, love the 'well we have to have Robin Hood though.' I think I agree, honestly, even though I'm the pedant who grumbles in the London Dungeons (a tourist attraction) when it gets to Sweeney Todd. Everything else in there is historical! Go away demon barber!
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This is such a Mary Renault move, this movement from compassion to “we belong together,” and here is in Mary Renault it’s the beloved realizing the strength of the lover’s feelings and basically acquiescing to this state of affairs: you adore me, and I love you I guess. I’m not mad keen on this dynamic ever, and I like it even less when the lover is the woman in a heterosexual romance: she’s already so disadvantaged by society, she ought at least to have the advantage of a husband who adores her rather than one who allows himself to be adored.
Yes, exactly!
Haha, love the 'well we have to have Robin Hood though.' I think I agree, honestly, even though I'm the pedant who grumbles in the London Dungeons (a tourist attraction) when it gets to Sweeney Todd. Everything else in there is historical! Go away demon barber!