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Novels, stories and films reflect this culture, presenting the eternal triangle as the norm. Suffering wife and anguished mistress, between whom something in trousers tramps back and forth. The famous female revenges of literature are distractingly complicated. The traditional patient-and-understanding approach is a revenge in itself in that it takes the thrill out of extra-marital sex. Erring husband sits gloomily with mistress saying "Sarah is being absolutely wonderful", which leaves mistress spitting with impotent rage The only phase of jealousy that is not essentially third-rate is the lunatic phase at the very end, when all hope of winning him back has gone. He certainly will not love you if you take drastic measures, but he does not love you anyway, so what the hell .... In the grip of biological overdrive, we absolutely have to take violent action or else we would implode .... That is why the avenging angel, or she-devil, invariably hits the spot that will cause maximum humiliation or pain .... The late Lady Patricia Douglas, a famous femme fatale herself and the niece of Oscar Wilde's beloved Bosie, threw all her errant husband's clothes out into the street. Diana Rigg showed public spirit and took all her husband's clothes down to Oxfam. Pamela Bordes hacked the business section - the crotch - out of Andrew Neil's trousers .... Lady Moon's mutilation of the baronet's 32 suits hit him squarely not only in his overdraft but in his vanity and in his stoutish physical person .... [She also poured or sprayed? paint all over his car]. Since Peter Moon is in the motor trade, his BMW, parked outside his new love's cottage, was a prime target. A car, too, can stand for the family home in microcosm, and to use it for infidelity is a special kind of betrayal When you whittle it down there are only two choices. Either you bite on the bullet or you go public. Jilly Cooper went public over Leo when Leo's mistress told all to the Guardian. Mary Murphy, after 18 years, spilled the beans about Bishop Casey. In the past this "outing" would have been frowned upon by so-called decent people as tasteless, and destructive of the reputation of both parties. No longer, so far as the woman is concerned .... G.B. Shaw observed that female murderers always got sheaves of offers of marriage. Wrecking a man's car and clothes is metaphorical murder. Lady Moon assumes that she faces a solitary future. I would not bank on it. But I would advise her, in the words of Wendy Cope, to be careful: There are so many kinds of awful men -One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again. She always made a new mistake instead. FINAL WORDS - SUMMERTIME There will be no meetings this month or next and no Newsletter in August but a short one in September to remind you re. the meeting. NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. Have a lovely summer! Tony Scammell Editor