Podcast Appearances
But, as Tony points out, this is a horrifying thought.
I mean, first and foremost, it's horrifying because Uriah is such an awful, icky, slimy, sort of eel-like person.
It's awful to think of her having to spend her life with him, having to sleep with him, making his meals, bringing him his slippers, whatever it is that they would do as a married couple is awful to think about, just period.
But also, as Tony says...
It's awful because I think many of us are hoping that at some point David will screw his head on right and realize that he should marry Agnes.
Now, I want to point out that David has absolutely no intention at this point of doing that.
He is engaged to Dora.
According to him, he is madly in love with Dora.
According to him, he thinks of Agnes as his wonderful sister.
But I know that many of you are thinking that Agnes would be a much better match for him.
And also that perhaps all his going on and on about how Agnes is his good angel and his best friend and his home and all of this, that is actually his way of saying, without knowing that he's saying, that he's actually in love with her.
I mean, the way that he talks about her does kind of sound like romantic love.
He says, this is a quote, I don't know how it is, Agnes.
I seem to want some faculty of mind that I ought to have.
You were so much in the habit of thinking for me in the happy old days here, and I came so naturally to you for counsel and support that I really think I have missed acquiring it.
I mean, saying that you feel like the person you love is a part of you or your other half or your missing piece or something, it's a pretty standard idea in terms of romantic love.
Here's something else that David says.
He says, So saying that someone is your home is another pretty standard thing to say about the person that you love romantically.
But I think for David...
love or romantic love, for him it's this sort of frenzied, all-consuming infatuation and physical attraction.