“If you take safety completely off the list, Luce is never going to forgive me if you get stung by some plant and die.” He griped back, rolling his eyes for good measure. “I’ll offer a contribution, part of your birthday, yes? A compromise of sorts, and it gives me the excuse for annoying dear Papa for an advance too.” Not that he needed such things, even on his salary as a tenured professor his other avenues of income were numerous and varied.
A flash of scepticism was cast her way. “Unlikely, most married people are dull. But I find myself repeating myself, again. I say to you like I did to him, a partner - the right one - allows our obsessions but also stabilises our doubts simultaneously.” For a successful one, a balanced one. A union was like a well-balanced equation, it only balanced when its elements were equal or complimentary.
“Oh don’t mistake my turn of phrase for not agreeing with you, the story I tell is just merely different, the questions different.” The world was ruled by numbers, it was the basic foundation of … well everything.
A flash of scepticism was cast her way. “Unlikely, most married people are dull. But I find myself repeating myself, again. I say to you like I did to him, a partner - the right one - allows our obsessions but also stabilises our doubts simultaneously.” For a successful one, a balanced one. A union was like a well-balanced equation, it only balanced when its elements were equal or complimentary.
“Oh don’t mistake my turn of phrase for not agreeing with you, the story I tell is just merely different, the questions different.” The world was ruled by numbers, it was the basic foundation of … well everything.
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