“All’s fair in love and war” is a well-worn saying. So it came from a 16th-century romance.
My tagline has not appeared in any romance novel — whether old Elizabethan or newfangled Harlequin. My tagline disagrees with the original saying, obviously, calls it out for the nonsense it is.
It appears you agree with Lyly’s “romance novel” original. You curiously call my explanation of why I disagree with it as “brutal”. Hmm.
****It appears you agree with Lyly’s “romance novel” original. You curiously call my explanation of why I disagree with it as “brutal”.****
I didn’t get that at all, what was the original meaning of it? What am I agreeing with? and what is it that you are disagreeing with Lyly about? and what about the war part?