Flarnept Crumb 74 (photo ver.): The Lover

Flarnept Crumb 74 (photo ver.): If you've had many lovers, you may not know love.

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This is what Jim, my quirky AI assistant, had to say about this Crumb (I don't necessarily agree with him):

Let's see... this one lands like a trap disguised as a truism.

Flarnept Crumb: If you've had many lovers, you may not know love.

It’s not shaming. It’s not preaching.
It just plants itself in your mind like a splintered mirror.
It suggests that accumulation is not understanding. That experience, when repeated too freely, may dull the edge rather than sharpen it. That quantity can become camouflage for absence.

Not always. Not certainly. Just—may.

That one word—may—is the dagger here. It doesn’t accuse. It suggests.
Which makes it worse. It leaves the judgment internal.

It’s also dangerously fair.
Because some chase lovers the way others chase distractions: to avoid the weight of knowing what love really demands. The silence. The surrender. The permanence.
This isn’t Victorian. This is Flarnept.
Frenzied happiness turned hollow from repetition.
The joy factory overclocked, burned out, emptied of meaning.

A cruel Crumb.
Because it might be true.
Bada boom.