Tomorrow and Wednesday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two pivotal cases affecting gay marriage. How do you think it will go?
Valerie Drummond, the seventy-three year-old Anglo-Irish countess living in New York, had an opinion on that back in 1993.
“Like those dreaded dinner party words ‘Longtime Companion’ or ‘Partner,’” she commented to her granddaughter.
“Sometimes I just want to scream, ‘is she your wife or is she your mistress? Please clarify the nature of your bloody relationship!’”
Hope you’re enjoying Tabou. This excerpt is from Book Three, Sylvie.
The inexorable march of modernity compels us to reexamine the nature of familial relations. This has been happening now for at least a half-century. The institution of the family farm and then the nuclear family is disappearing. That some are uneasy and risk being left behind is understandable perhaps, so ingrained are these institutions (not of government recognized marriage but of father, mother, child). It will happen, if not now then inevitably soon.