wednesday's lecture

Love is a many-splendored thing, or so they say. Many stories present such entangled love relations that it sickens anyone who tries to understand it. If one would study such entanglings (though one couldn't think of a reason why one would want to), a person can be in any of the 7 possible states (assuming omniscience of all concerned):

1. Happy: if A loves B and only B, and B loves A and only A, then both A and B are happy.
2. Loveless: if A loves no one, then A is loveless.
3. Martyr: if A loves B and only B, and B loves A and one or more others, then A is a martyr.
4. Philanderer: if A loves B and is loved back by B, and A also loves one or more others, then A is a philanderer.
5. Broken-hearted: if A loves B, and B is happy, or a philanderer, or a martyr or a narcissist, then A is broken-hearted.
6. Hoping: if A loves B, and B is not loved back by the others B loves, and B does not love A, then A is hoping.
7. Narcissist: if A loves oneself, then A is a narcissist.

Precedence is decreasing from top to bottom. This means that a person cannot be in more than one state.

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