How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"But I think we often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school." (4.31)
Love is often seen as something that can transcend bad times, or transform them—like Cinderella's prince rescuing her from drudgery. Connie here thinks that maybe Cinderella (or is that Connie?) wanted a prince because she couldn't become a research geneticist.
Quote #5
"Unstable dyads, fierce and greedy, trying to body the original mother-child bonding. It looks tragic and blind!" (6.155)
This is what the future people think about our nuclear families back here in the present. Marriage with just two partners is greedy and tragic and blind. Love more, love better, sleep with all until the hippie lovelight shines! (We've mentioned that the people of the future are all hippies, right?)
Quote #6
"But a person wants to couple with everybody."
"Aw, not everybody. Not all of the time." (7.5-6)
Jackrabbit is insisting that he only wants to sleep with just about everybody just about all of the time. This is presented as fun and funny… though a couple people also say that having Jackrabbit love them and leave them was a bit upsetting. But because the future is easy about sex and love, Jackrabbit's jumping and hopping from person to person is amusing rather than a tragedy or a disaster (like Connie's marriage to Eddie was).