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MysticWino
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Date Joined May 2007
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| Posted 4/30/2008 9:51 PM (GMT -4) |   | | | |
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Rob Mancebo
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Date Joined Jul 2005
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| Posted 4/30/2008 7:32 PM (GMT -4) | |
MysticWino said...
Why is he avoiding the fairer sex? To avoid the temptation to sleep with them – actually to keep from objectifying them. > >
- A quick(old) story:
A pair of monks came to a swift river crossing where a girl was sitting, unable to cross. The older Monk carried the girl across, blessed her, and continued on his way with his young fellow following along. Some way down the road, the young monk--much troubled by what he'd seen--asked his mentor why he'd picked up the girl when they were bound to avoid contact with women.
The elder monk replied, "That was simple charity. Yet I put her down upon the bank of the river, why are you still carrying her?"
- A true mystic deals with problems.
How long was he married before he was displaced? Does it matter how long? He took a vow. Call it ten years. > >
- Of course it matters. The first year is all stars and romance. If he loses her then, he'll be mourning a fantasy. If he's been married ten years they'll have fought their way through the old 'Seven year itch' and be fairly stable. Then he'll be missing a real person. If they've been marries 20+ years then either she's the old ball & chain that he's just too lazy to shed, or they'er really entrenched in each other's lives and her loss would be emotionally crippling.
"Why would a 25yo woman think a 50yo mage is a hottie? Good question. But I see it all the time – on the ground as well as on TV. Women are drawn to men for different reasons than men to women – and the same, I guess. He’s got power and influence, and all the security and material wealth anyone could need – though it’s irrelevant to this story."
- That's a specific question, not generic. What's the attraction between these two. That will help us answer the questions. What's the chemistry between A & B character. (you cover that more throughout these posts.)
"He probably writes her a poem every other day. His memory of her keeps him breathing through the long winters."
- Well that pretty much clinches how he'd feel having an affair, doesn't it? It would destroy life as he knows it. A character who is a self-aware fifty is a little old to be jumping off that silky cliff.
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Rob Mancebo
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Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 911
| Posted 4/30/2008 7:06 PM (GMT -4) | |
MichaelEhart said...I'm 52, and I'm still a hottie. My wife is 14 years younger than me and stunning. At 52, believe me, I still enjoy a "physical relationship" :) --you know, shuffleboard, canasta, looking for my dentures.... sheesh. Go read Kinsey.
Kinsey? Oh yes, the guy who proved he never passed statistical analysys by sending out 300,000 surveys, getting 3,000 back, then claiming to the world he knew all about everyone's sex life.  (But he certainly had 'marketing' figured out.)
- I'm fifty this year and I've had to start having my wife come to lunch at work to chase away the 18year old girls. But you can't judge every character by yourself. I've seen plenty of pot-bellied, potato-nosed, bandi-legged, craggy, wheezy, apathetic, foul-tempered, semi-invalid, all-around physically disfunctional 50-year-olds. I've also known folks who were active through their 80s.
- There are people who just physically and emotionally wither at that age, hence the question.
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Rob Mancebo
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| Posted 4/30/2008 6:47 PM (GMT -4) | |
MysticWino said...
You've evidently read another of my stories with this ambiguity . . .
He's easy to drug. Makes his own wine and is fond of a certain intoxicating mushroom - though he also chews a mixture that keeps his head clear most of the time. The mushrooms are great pain killers, and he suffers from chronic pain. This reason has yet to be outed, though, as it is his most protected secret. At least protected most from others . . . He's not even aware at this point of the greatest secrets of his life, which he has hidden from himself for . . . a very long time.
I think I'll go with this, though it doesn't let him off the hook. He'll assume that he subconsciously wanted to be seduced and is therefore culpable. Guiltridden, he'll try to prevent the catastrophe he knows is meant to befall her. But that may be beyond the scope of this tale . . . no idea yet. - Wheeeew!  I can't believe you're going to slip him a "Date-rape" drug and call it good. If you reversed the genders here you'd probably get any sales picketed by N.O.W. And, of course, she's going to be okay with explaining to her daughter, 'Yes Honey, Daddy's not around because I slipped him a Mickey and had it on with him when he was unconscious. You know, any way you can get 'it' is okay.' ????
- Now maybe I'm a little hyper-sensitive because I occationally deal with wandering psycho/perverts in my security job, but this doesn't seem like a good solution to me. Sorry.
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MichaelEhart
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Date Joined Jul 2005
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| Posted 4/30/2008 1:37 PM (GMT -4) | | I'm 52, and I'm still a hottie. My wife is 14 years younger than me and stunning.
At 52, believe me, I still enjoy a "physical relationship" :) --you know, shuffleboard, canasta, looking for my dentures.... sheesh. Go read Kinsey.
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