– well, he is at Cambridge, so why not? :) Indeed.
– INTJ much, going back to your earlier point. :) Totally. And I'm not sure if you remember, but from Timely Lovers:
Roda’s head on his chest, his arm around her shoulder, the Seeker was leisurely relating the story of how he and Jack had hunted down and killed the large beast whose pelt was spread out before the hearth.
– Poor Allie. She knows, now, on some level, and she’s not sure she wants to know... This. It's... complicated.
<– It is so unfair. Seeker's reply: 'Life's unfair'.
– Not sure though why Josh thinks the cure is working. Alex was upset at the planetarium, yes, but...? I think the main problem - both for Josh & Allie later on - is that they don't know why Alex is being punished. (Although Alex actually lays it out in this chapter: That it's not about making him change his mind, it's about making him pay. Since they can't force him to be sorry.) Both Josh and Allie think that making Alex unhappy will do something - Josh notes the cracks - but although they note the consequences, they don't realise they're misdiagnosing. (It's not Cambridge as such that's the problem - and not even Alex realises this - it's the continued lying, the way he splits himself in half. He might have been OK if he'd left when he intended, but Cambridge prolongs and intensifies it, eventually stretching him to breaking point, and beyond.)
– Of course. Sex is good. Jack knows lots about sex and how to make it even better. So ask Jack.
– cue terrifying portentous drum roll and pet Allison very gently... Walking in and out of her mind as if it were his flat.
– Because that’s just what undergraduates (or for that matter graduates who are completing doctoral theses in the same field) do... Seriously? I made it up, because I needed them to be in that place & time for the sake of the plot. (Also it fitted with the characters etc etc.) But totally made up.
– Fly away, fly away... Yes, exactly.
– So far gone that not even Standard Digressionary Tactics come into play. Wow. Self-pity-itis is a powerful malady.
– Oh dear, Alex, on a better day you really would have phrased that a bit differently... Good thing Allison doesn't get easily offended. (Well, not when she understands where it comes from.)
– !!! The Seeker understands the Doctor far too well sometimes...
– Oh, Alex. She would have been so good for you if it hadn’t been for the lying and the extra pieces of the puzzle. Seeing through Standard Digressionary Tactics, no less... She IS good for him. I honestly don't know what they'd have been like if she'd known.
– Where is “lying liar who lies” from? I associate it with Eleven, but not sure why, aside from Rule One... Um. I don't know. Then I googled it, went to TVTropes, and although they didn't have an origin, they used an Invader Zim quote to illustrate it, so now I'm happy. :)
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Indeed.
– INTJ much, going back to your earlier point. :)
Totally. And I'm not sure if you remember, but from Timely Lovers:
– Poor Allie. She knows, now, on some level, and she’s not sure she wants to know...
This. It's... complicated.
<– It is so unfair.
Seeker's reply: 'Life's unfair'.
– Not sure though why Josh thinks the cure is working. Alex was upset at the planetarium, yes, but...?
I think the main problem - both for Josh & Allie later on - is that they don't know why Alex is being punished. (Although Alex actually lays it out in this chapter: That it's not about making him change his mind, it's about making him pay. Since they can't force him to be sorry.) Both Josh and Allie think that making Alex unhappy will do something - Josh notes the cracks - but although they note the consequences, they don't realise they're misdiagnosing. (It's not Cambridge as such that's the problem - and not even Alex realises this - it's the continued lying, the way he splits himself in half. He might have been OK if he'd left when he intended, but Cambridge prolongs and intensifies it, eventually stretching him to breaking point, and beyond.)
– Of course.
Sex is good. Jack knows lots about sex and how to make it even better. So ask Jack.
– cue terrifying portentous drum roll and pet Allison very gently...
Walking in and out of her mind as if it were his flat.
– Because that’s just what undergraduates (or for that matter graduates who are completing doctoral theses in the same field) do...
Seriously? I made it up, because I needed them to be in that place & time for the sake of the plot. (Also it fitted with the characters etc etc.) But totally made up.
– Fly away, fly away...
Yes, exactly.
– So far gone that not even Standard Digressionary Tactics come into play. Wow.
Self-pity-itis is a powerful malady.
– Oh dear, Alex, on a better day you really would have phrased that a bit differently...
Good thing Allison doesn't get easily offended. (Well, not when she understands where it comes from.)
– !!!
The Seeker understands the Doctor far too well sometimes...
– Oh, Alex. She would have been so good for you if it hadn’t been for the lying and the extra pieces of the puzzle. Seeing through Standard Digressionary Tactics, no less...
She IS good for him. I honestly don't know what they'd have been like if she'd known.
– Where is “lying liar who lies” from? I associate it with Eleven, but not sure why, aside from Rule One...
Um. I don't know. Then I googled it, went to TVTropes, and although they didn't have an origin, they used an Invader Zim quote to illustrate it, so now I'm happy. :)