#everyone and no one is on cromwell's jock that is the way it is....we are literally living in his brainpan and nowhere else

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As a middle aged person, I think that there is probably nothing more relatable in the Cromwell books than the comedy of errors that is his supposed love life...Everything is deliberately ambiguous. Everyone or no one could actually fancy him. Every one or no one legitimately flirted with him. By the third book, you have the sense that he has entirely given up on ever having any kind of romantic/sexual relationship with anyone because he just assume shit's not gonna go his way.

And the narrative keeps putting him in SITUATIONS.

Some people find this tasteless, creepy, etc. and that is their right. I also think they completely miss the point about subjectivity that the author is trying to make...