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CHARACTER BIO: TONY STARK / IRON MAN

>>> “you throw another moon at me, and i’m gonna lose it.”

“dalliance”

— (noun) As one of the most beautiful words in the English dictionary,dalliance is defined as a brief love affair, a flirtation or a fleeting love. A dalliance also has connotations of amorous toying, example flirting without mindfulness and stringing a person along. Inevitably, Gatsby’s ephemeral relationship with Daisy in The Great Gatsby comes forth in our mind. Though the word dalliance is delicately beautiful, its meaning is quite bittersweet; Daisy’s selfish, coquettish nature led to Gatsby’s demise. What we have learned is that a dalliance with the presence of unrequited love is lethal.

https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-retirement-in-her-own-words

Susan Sontag, from “The Dummy”, featured in I, Etcetera: Stories

“I am pretending you did not exist. Ink nightly washes black over my consciousness and abandons me as morning seaweed upon a foreign beach. I am pretending we were simply the sparkling imagination of some higher being, our life together set below a singular epic sky unrepeated in future histories. I am pretending I cannot taste you each day as I do the sea air in my breath when I am running, my heart tied upon one foot, ancient melancholy tied upon the other, anxiously racing, madly racing through lifetimes, to find our brightened souls. I see you in colors that don’t exist. It is all that I see clearly. and why I run.”

— Matsumoto, Paul. I See You in Colors.

#same energy

Bob Hicok, from “The Days Are Getting Longer”, Elegy Owed