The internet can’t give me a good image of Juan Boscán to go along with the above line, which is from the sonnet that Electrelane then turned into the song “Oh Sombra!” But the question here is more a rhetorical one, and perhaps, as such, carries an ethical element. So we know how friends, family, etc., always say, “I’ll love you no matter what,” or “come to me with anything,” or “I will be the rock upon which you found your church.” But there’s always an implicit limit to the offer—like I’ve said the above many times. I don’t think, however, that I’d, say, off a body for a friend.
My question, then, is what do you do when someone to whom you’ve made the above-type offers degenerates to the point where you’re afraid of what, exactly, might be contained in “no matter what” or “anything”?
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