I’m so looking forward to your thoughts on your The Longest Journey reread! Re: your comment response on AO3, the beginning of the novel really does have Stewart be so openly affectionate, and I could see the Edwardian Oxbridge novel which features their friendship! Probably better that we didn’t get it, given Rickie/Stewart doesn’t seem to fit Forster’s preferred relationship mold, but still… Stewart’s character could quite easily have been dropped after Cambridge, and the fact that he isn’t and that he continues to care so much about Rickie feels significant.
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I’m so looking forward to your thoughts on your The Longest Journey reread! Re: your comment response on AO3, the beginning of the novel really does have Stewart be so openly affectionate, and I could see the Edwardian Oxbridge novel which features their friendship! Probably better that we didn’t get it, given Rickie/Stewart doesn’t seem to fit Forster’s preferred relationship mold, but still… Stewart’s character could quite easily have been dropped after Cambridge, and the fact that he isn’t and that he continues to care so much about Rickie feels significant.