Love
The Green-Eyed Monster
An alarm set to go off, a forced choice, a defence the law withdrew, and a word for the opposite
Shakespeare · Buss and his critics · the codes of 1810 and 1930 · Kerista · 4 chapters · 15 min read
What jealousy is for, a sex difference that depends on the question, the killings the law excused, and a word for the opposite.
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Three people and a feeling
- 01An Alarm Built to Go OffOn a feeling built to guard, and therefore built to be wrong.
- 02Sex or Feelings?On a famous sex difference, and how much of it lives in the question.
- 03When the Law Excused ItOn the centuries when the law shared a husband's jealousy.
- 04A Word for the OppositeOn a word invented for a feeling that was supposed to be impossible.