On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:48:41 -0000, Jenny Kaye wrote:
"Hang the":-) DDJ wrote:
Jenny Kaye wrote:
My wife is not the same as "my woman".
Which might be because she's not his wife -- for any of a number of
reasons
(prohibitions against marriage in their grade; one of them in a
situation
where s/he's not free to marry because of family obligations or pre-existing marriage or financial inability to support a spouse).
It "might be" that she is a rotting corpse and it's illegal to marry
rotting
corpses in the Federation. It "might be" that she is an android or really
a
man in disguise. Or an inflatable sea bird, or a kangaroo, or a plate of Spam. She "might be" a handgliding penguin from the planet Calufrax, who didn't have an entry visa. She "might be" a large stripy snake called Hector, or a shop window dummy, or she "might be" Sally Manton, or me, or she "might be" a cut out picture from a magazine.
WhenI hear "my woman," it connotes a degree of intimacy/closeness beyond
"my
girlfriend"
Does it now? So Jarvik, then, was really a kind and sensitive guy who
just
wanted to be intimate and close with Servalan, and all his ordering her about was just him being loving.
-- the kind of closeness he'd have with a woman he wanted to
marry but hadn't;
However you want to paint it, though, that possessive is still there. Why
is
she "his" woman? What makes her "his" and not, oh, say, her own?
at the same time, the term doesn't foreground the
physical relationship the way "my lover" would.
Or "my victim..."
And not elaborating on the
details seems in keeping both with Gan and the scene:
That's true!
it's not a
confess-all-the-details situation, but a brief explanation.
That's true!
But one of Lennon's greatest love songs is titled "Woman" and conveys
the
opposite attitude :
"Woman I know you understand The little child inside the man, Please remember my life is in your hands, And woman hold me close to your heart, However, distant don't keep us apart,"
Yes, but he doesn't use the possessive, does he?
"My Woman I know you understand. The little child inside the man, Please remember your life is
in
my hands. And my woman, hold me close to your heart, However, distant
don't
keep us apart, Do that, and I will have to tear you apart."
Jenny
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