![]() ![]() As my epigraph from Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries shows, when two women and a man are involved in a triangle of desire, the women's relationship is commonly one of tension and jealousy as they compete for the man's attentions. THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGLE HAS LONG BEEN A POPULAR ABSTRACTION FOR human relationships of desire. In curved space, the angles over-add themselves and parallel lines always meet. ![]() Unfortunately, Euclidean theorems work only if space is flat. The shape is beguiling and it could be understood as a new geometry of family life. ![]() Everyone knows the score, and the women are held in tension, away from one another. In Euclidean geometry the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees and parallel lines never meet. If you want to know how a mistress marriage works, ask a triangle. ![]()
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