GRGR(3): Jessica and Roger, Mind-to-mind

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

> Michael Perez wrote:
> Yes, in addition to consideration of Jessica's other romantic interest,
> 
> > Beaver, both of her relationships are built upon opportunism.  With all
> > the chaos of wartime London, these three have two of many uneasy, but
> > convenient, coalitions.  The togetherness of either linking will not
> > last past the war, when everyone goes back to their mundane post-war
> > lives. 


> Sounds like Love is devalued simply because is may not be lasting or is
> doomed. Even the most sincere and considerate of loves may be short lived.
> People change their minds. The World changes. Jessica's two timing doesn't
> invalidate anything.

I'm with Paul on this one. Appears a bit of moral judgement is being 
passed, the kinds of comments which my old man would have dismissed 
as priggish. It's f....ing wartime! If you think that conceptual 
continuity was ever disturbed in the course of exam week (the 
distilled fear and contracted time generates frantic sexual activity 
realized or thwarted), can you imagine what the perpetual presence of 
death would do to your sense of sexual propriety? THough I haven't 
experienced it myself, I've been told by some who have been , that 
through the 70's and 80's pne of the most sexually liberated places 
on earth was Israel. The possibility that the group of kids with 
which you have been hanging could be decimated in short order 
accellerates the dynamics which in less stressful environments could 
flourish more classically.

I'm no libertine (anymore at least) but I also fail to see why 
Jessica can't love both Roger and Nutria at the same time, been there 
done that. What the hell, if we can discern a spark of love in the 
actions of Blicero (and I've had to come around on that myself) how 
could we possibly judge Roger and Jessica's union as being motivated 
by anything else?

love,
cfa