Yeah, what about single mothers & fathers? (Although you could argue that it's not always by choice that they live alone.)
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
arby - Jan 26, 2005 6:48:57 am PST #4064 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)
amych - Jan 26, 2005 6:55:39 am PST #4065 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, what about single mothers & fathers?
Don't be silly. The only conceivable configurations are the boring oppressive traditional nuclear family, or the polyamorous thing where grandad gets first dibs on your new girlfriend.
Jesse - Jan 26, 2005 6:59:34 am PST #4066 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Uh, single parents aren't living alone -- they are living with their kid. No partner isn't the same as alone.
Kristen - Jan 26, 2005 7:19:25 am PST #4067 of 10001
What makes you think that preferring to live alone is a genetic trait, passed down from parent to child?
My mother and I could be participants in a study of the phenomenon. The genetically incapable of co-habitation. Though, since I am unlikely to spawn, it would be a very limited study.
Kristen - Jan 26, 2005 7:24:45 am PST #4068 of 10001
In other news, I just got an email that Caroline Dhavernas is going to be a guest on Nick Digilio's radio show (WGN Chicago) this Sunday night (11 PM Central Time).
IIRC from when Tim was on the show, you can listen online at their site.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2005 7:27:41 am PST #4069 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What's Caroline up to these days? Is this to promote the DVD release?
Kristen - Jan 26, 2005 7:32:21 am PST #4070 of 10001
I'm not sure what she's up to but I know they plan to talk about WF and give away some DVD sets.
Strega - Jan 26, 2005 7:47:54 am PST #4071 of 10001
Allyson -- Yup. I'm always around. Because I actually am solitary, heh. Any night but Friday is fine. Just give me a heads-up so I'm off the phone.
Jon B. --
What makes you think that preferring to live alone is a genetic trait, passed down from parent to child?
I was just trying to paraphrase so it's not my opinion, but that's not what I said. It doesn't matter if it's genetic or learned; it's still self-correcting. If it's genetic, the genes aren't going to become dominant. If it's learned behavior, then there's nobody around to whom you can teach it. And if (and this is my personal opinion) it's due to a combination of a thousand tiny things, it's not likely to be a problem.
I think RAH's train of thought was "Here's how families are changing, and may continue to change, and before you say 'maybe we'll all live alone' here's why I don't think that's likely, and anyway...." It's a one-sentence parenthetical note.
arby - Jan 26, 2005 8:36:46 am PST #4072 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)
Uh, single parents aren't living alone -- they are living with their kid. No partner isn't the same as alone.
Oh yeah. Duh.
I got nothin'.
Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2005 10:17:34 am PST #4073 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Okay. Line marriage as proposed by Heinlein works like this.
I marry Tim. Tim marries ita. ita marries Mark Dacascos. Mark marries Kate Winslet. And so on. Each new person is joining the Hanes Perry marriage. (It's named after me because I thought of it. So there.) New partners have to be approved by the existing members of the marriage. The Hanes Perry marriage owns property in common and raises children of the marriage together. The marriage's children do NOT marry back into the lineage.
P.S. Everybody is heterosexual because this is a middle-period Heinlein novel.