>"Nick believes in romantic love and in happily ever after."
Something I've been thinking recently about those "Partners of the Month" flashbacks is the transition from medieval ways of thinking as represented there by Nick -- in which creation and our places in it are fixed and unchanging, and rightly so -- to Renaissance ways of thinking as represented there by Janette -- in which change begins to be conceivable, and individualism begins to gestate in western thought (rolling on eventually toward the Enlightenment).
Of course Janette is even older than Nick, and surely as purely medieval in experience and age, but Nick is more peculiarly characteristically medieval in his mindset, perhaps because he was in a superior social position, where that "conditions are static" mindset by and large served him and his class and his sex.
>"I like that in 'Partners of Month' Nick was finally able to acknowledge the state of things then."
Similarly on Janette's side, I also like in PotM how she admits -- though only in the hearing of the mildly intoxicated Schanke -- that she left then in part because she was frightened by the depth of Nick's devotion.
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Something I've been thinking recently about those "Partners of the Month" flashbacks is the transition from medieval ways of thinking as represented there by Nick -- in which creation and our places in it are fixed and unchanging, and rightly so -- to Renaissance ways of thinking as represented there by Janette -- in which change begins to be conceivable, and individualism begins to gestate in western thought (rolling on eventually toward the Enlightenment).
Of course Janette is even older than Nick, and surely as purely medieval in experience and age, but Nick is more peculiarly characteristically medieval in his mindset, perhaps because he was in a superior social position, where that "conditions are static" mindset by and large served him and his class and his sex.
>"I like that in 'Partners of Month' Nick was finally able to acknowledge the state of things then."
Similarly on Janette's side, I also like in PotM how she admits -- though only in the hearing of the mildly intoxicated Schanke -- that she left then in part because she was frightened by the depth of Nick's devotion.