A line marriage is a group of people who are all married. The line marriage described in the book alternates girl, boy, girl, boy in new additions to the line, and there are some set of arrangements for sexual housekeeping that I forget. It's yet another polyamory variant. As Allyson says, it's explicitly stated that the senior male gets the first night with the newest female. (Urk.)
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 8:24:48 am PST #4033 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
arby - Jan 25, 2005 8:39:52 am PST #4034 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
Ewww. I'd conveniently erased the squicktastic semi-incesty stuff from my memory. So Tim DID keep the line marriages?
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 8:42:59 am PST #4035 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
How can a polyamorous relationship be incesty? I don't see the distinction between one male grouped with a harem of females and a continuing relationship in which adult males and females are added as the older members die out. It's explicitly mentioned that there's an incest taboo and that children of the marriage don't marry back into the line.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 8:43:39 am PST #4036 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
(Bear in mind, I had a hard enough time finding ONE person I wanted to live with, and then spawning a couple more. I can't imagine voluntarily living in a sexual collective.)
Allyson - Jan 25, 2005 8:48:13 am PST #4037 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I find that the more I think about TMiaHM, the less I can rationally discuss it without needing to make someone bleed.
Perhaps this could be inspiration for me to go to Krav, and ita can just read portions of it aloud while I train.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 9:01:15 am PST #4038 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Please do not make me bleed, Allyson.
Allyson - Jan 25, 2005 9:06:54 am PST #4039 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Of course not! Unless you defend the grampa squick. And then I'm just gonna have to give you a good talkin' to. But no blood, bruising, or even a noogie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2005 9:56:23 am PST #4040 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, my god, that's the little British kid from Galactica 1980.
...dizzy...worlds colliding in odd ways...
You and me both, Dana! I followed that link out of fond remembrance of the ski lodge episode of Frasier and ended up yelling "DR. ZEE!!!" and clutching my head.
Strix - Jan 25, 2005 3:16:58 pm PST #4041 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I may be talking outta my ass on TMisHM (I haven't read it in a couple of years) but I know all the Future series polyamo marriages usually has some kind of bloodline dynamic...like Lazarus/Maureen/Lapis Lazuli & Lorelei and oh, the professor and his daughter named after the Burroughs Mars princess in The Number of the Beast.
arby - Jan 25, 2005 4:45:11 pm PST #4042 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
What Erin said. What I recall is the family/sex thing became more and more prominent as RAH's work progressed.
(And I like his stuff despite that. Not proud of it from a feminist point of view, but I do.)