> Psychic shock waves! Yes, I agree, though marriage as conscription while > still enlisted may be too much! I wondered why Seymour felt the > responsibility of Muriel's love as separate from the responsibility of > loving everyone/thing else? Perhaps -- just perhaps -- because it was a greater challenge than anything he had encountered before. Loving "everything" (which is so abstract and saintly) is a greater challenge than loving someone well, especially in so odd a couple. --tim