Very good choice. And I agree that this is among the best of Prufrock's Love's fiction, which often arouses conflicting feelings in me.
Though interesting, sure, it is also very unhappy in an arrested development way that was typical of many episodes, I suppose.
I disagree, if I understand you, that Mulder and Scully were never together in "that way," although they obviously aren't now. The sperm donor issue remains unaddressed, but Mulder refers to a "that night" and they are obviously exchanging romantic signals and gestures. Maybe sex is on-again-off-again, as he implies.
The problem now is that Mulder *can't* give up the quest and Scully *can't* give up wanting him to stay home with the family, no matter what the original single-parent deal was. It's ironic that she is left in a relationship like yet very unlike the one Maggie had with Ahab, who was at sea so much of the time.
This is magnificently written. The woman can turn a phrase and make it look easy.
She does have, is seems, a continuing fixation on menstruation.
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Though interesting, sure, it is also very unhappy in an arrested development way that was typical of many episodes, I suppose.
I disagree, if I understand you, that Mulder and Scully were never together in "that way," although they obviously aren't now. The sperm donor issue remains unaddressed, but Mulder refers to a "that night" and they are obviously exchanging romantic signals and gestures. Maybe sex is on-again-off-again, as he implies.
The problem now is that Mulder *can't* give up the quest and Scully *can't* give up wanting him to stay home with the family, no matter what the original single-parent deal was. It's ironic that she is left in a relationship like yet very unlike the one Maggie had with Ahab, who was at sea so much of the time.
This is magnificently written. The woman can turn a phrase and make it look easy.
She does have, is seems, a continuing fixation on menstruation.