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So Alan, over at the Poly In The Media blog, has just posted a review of Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit as a poly story. I highly recommend going over to read it. Some highlights include:
Go check out the rest of the blog for more on this.
Now I'm off to find my old copy from high school and re-read it! Maybe we'll review it over at the Poly Bookclub!
So Sartre was quite familiar with living and functioning in MFF threes (yes, de Beauvoir was actively bi). And even when not in one, he and de Beauvior (their relationship lasted 50 years) famously agreed to tell each other everything about their other lovers.
This had to affect his thinking and writing about bound-together, sexually interested threes.
I say that No Exit has a little-noticed poly message that's quite different from the unrelenting bleakness that most people see in Sartre. If the characters were literally at each others' throats 90 minutes after their arrival in the room, where will they be after a year in there, or 20 years, or 600? Their hell was arranged to fit their sins. It is up to them to redeem themselves: by learning to treat partners in a triad with the love and kindness and devotion they failed to show in life, and thus create their own salvation there in that room — since they'll be in it for eternity. If they want to get to heaven, this is where they must make it.
This had to affect his thinking and writing about bound-together, sexually interested threes.
I say that No Exit has a little-noticed poly message that's quite different from the unrelenting bleakness that most people see in Sartre. If the characters were literally at each others' throats 90 minutes after their arrival in the room, where will they be after a year in there, or 20 years, or 600? Their hell was arranged to fit their sins. It is up to them to redeem themselves: by learning to treat partners in a triad with the love and kindness and devotion they failed to show in life, and thus create their own salvation there in that room — since they'll be in it for eternity. If they want to get to heaven, this is where they must make it.
Go check out the rest of the blog for more on this.
Now I'm off to find my old copy from high school and re-read it! Maybe we'll review it over at the Poly Bookclub!
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