To be honest I really enjoyed all David's "fuck the Greeks though honestly" bits, the true rebuke to The Charioteer. David has very few concerns about The Way Things Should Be Done and it's honestly so freeing.
I like to think that even without David, Robert would eventually have gone, "You know what, I SHOULD go live with Pickett and Blanchard in London and meet a few chaps," but definitely the fact that he's doing it to make a home for David makes that a much easier decision for him. Very much a person who would put up with any kind of treatment for himself but move heaven and earth to protect his beloved.
David's feelings about aloneness right now are very much shaped by having been ALONE ALONE ALONE for the last nine months or so since Aunt Mary died, without much hope of a reprieve. He'll probably feel differently about it once it's no longer so much thrust on him by circumstances. He clearly spent some time at the Abbey going "I just CAN'T with all these PEOPLE all the time and yet I feel so lonely because I don't like most of them"
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Re: spoilers for book!
Date: 2021-10-16 01:33 pm (UTC)I like to think that even without David, Robert would eventually have gone, "You know what, I SHOULD go live with Pickett and Blanchard in London and meet a few chaps," but definitely the fact that he's doing it to make a home for David makes that a much easier decision for him. Very much a person who would put up with any kind of treatment for himself but move heaven and earth to protect his beloved.
David's feelings about aloneness right now are very much shaped by having been ALONE ALONE ALONE for the last nine months or so since Aunt Mary died, without much hope of a reprieve. He'll probably feel differently about it once it's no longer so much thrust on him by circumstances. He clearly spent some time at the Abbey going "I just CAN'T with all these PEOPLE all the time and yet I feel so lonely because I don't like most of them"