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but I have so much faith for/pq-maybe topic/infidelity topic/love

My father, Jonathan says, is a womanising bastard. I love him but it’s true, he’s a bastard. He doesn’t see it that way, he says he loves easily and well, but he’s a serial cheater. He cheated on my mother, he cheated on my stepmother, he cheated on his first wife, and he invented a whole intellect…

—p.315 Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
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I see it as something you practise topic/infidelity

When it comes to the ethical ramifications of desire, Lacan thinks: no. You don’t give in. You’ll just want something else later, so why indulge something that could prove harmful to other people? But I think it’s reinforcing an imprisoning structure to phrase it in terms of giving in or not giving…

—p.314 by Lauren Elkin
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fidelity to some younger version of myself topic/infidelity

Being with Jonathan doesn’t entirely feel like infidelity to David – in a way, it feels like fidelity to some younger version of myself. And yet I’m also meeting a new self in this infidelity, and she is the one I want. Far from feeling guilty or shameful I feel myself, I feel calm.

—p.289 by Lauren Elkin
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in this strange parabola in my life advice/living project/wine-story topic/infidelity

He comes, every night. He doesn’t text me during the day or give me any notice. I text him if it’s not a good night. If David is in town. He always comes even if just to tell me he can’t come, that Clémentine is staying home. Usually this is just after she has come over herself, so I already know, …

—p.276 by Lauren Elkin
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1 year, 3 months ago

in this strange parabola in my life advice/living project/wine-story topic/infidelity

He comes, every night. He doesn’t text me during the day or give me any notice. I text him if it’s not a good night. If David is in town. He always comes even if just to tell me he can’t come, that Clémentine is staying home. Usually this is just after she has come over herself, so I already know, …

—p.276 by Lauren Elkin