#its more pleasant for them to stay unhappy (him alone idk idc as much about him and her in a loveless marriage) or dissatisfied because
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two queens coming together to maximize their joint comphet!
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
#look ok textually is this comphet? no. but textually it IS two people who do prefer imagined/idealized relationships to real ones#like textually. she is in fact obsessed with this unattainable man for her entire life!! its perhaps because you prefer to imagine!!#shes in love with the idea!! with the imagined!! reality doesn't satisfy either of them!!#its more pleasant for them to stay unhappy (him alone idk idc as much about him and her in a loveless marriage) or dissatisfied because#then they can pretend and imagine that they COULD be happy in the supposedly better situation. BUT THEN THERES NOTHING TO IMAGINE#idk if im making ANY sense. but. you get it? yeah?#joan fontaine#old hollywood#letter from an unknown woman#my post
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