hannahlily

I. Subject one for today: the mental arithmetic of the early stages of love. 'He laughed at my joke and sunshine struck his hair and burnished it with copper and maybe that is a sign' can be added to 'I'm sure his pupils dilated, that's a sign of arousal, isn't it - well what are the chances of him having a tropical disease?'. But then you have to subtract those times when he obviously wasn't invested in the conversation, or last night on the phone when he sounded a bit funny. And the sum comes out at... ...not nearly enough. Mathematics does hurt on occasion. Impartial, unemotional and cold - it can pack a few punches of reality when it