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[johnny9fingers]

Notwithstanding that I am in some way an Eleanor Roosevelt-type person, I feel Spring is most definitely in the air. The sun shines. The sap rises. Thoughts turn to women. Well mine do but that's my problem.

My chum Stephen has a set of prerequisites before even contemplating stepping out with a female. They make for an amusing read:

i) she must be not mad. He's very insistent upon this having met a number of my girlfriends over the years. 
ii) she must be English. I've never quite agreed with S on this point. But he did once step out with a Welsh Girl, and an Italian lass or two, and his family are Irish (of a particular kind) anyway.
iii) she must be a 'gentlewoman'.

Now I would tend to include article iv) that the woman in question should actually be interested in him. Stephen, being a certain sort of chap, never has problems in believing that all women of taste and discrimination should find him fascinating. Stephen's chums, out of kindness, have not yet cared to disabuse him of this delusion for fear of making him unhappy.

I've stepped out with women of most hues and cultures and I've come to the conclusion my needs are easier to fulfill than Stephen's.
Not mad would be an advantage.
Same continent would also be good.
Over thirty (younger falls into that horrific category - young enough to be my daughter is a disconnect too far). Well preserved and of my own age would help.
Witty....this should go first on the list really: I'll put up with a lot if I'm laughing.

But somewhere at the core....
Spring is really in the air.
A seasonal disorder, no doubt.

Comments

[vlion.livejournal.com]

Not mad is an exceedingly important facet in a romance, I have come to learn.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Too true, though I tend to make allowances for brilliance: in fact brilliance and elegance and wit over-ride all other considerations for me....excepting of course goodness. Beauty of thought and behaviour are qualities against which any reasonable man's heart has no defenses, because they can never be in opposition.
A love of the carnal don't go amiss either: given I'm trapped in these mortal chains I might as well enjoy it. But that's Spring talking again.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i would like goodness. kindness never used to much matter to me, but now it is probably top, then carnal, then funny (to me, i don't want a comic) and after that probably clever, but then i think i mainly find clever funny. not much bothered about looks, but more something in the affect can put a person off, but maybe that's the scratch and sniff again.