Originally posted by VirginiaR:
Originally posted by John Lambert:
[b] Other writers would just kill off his current wife.
Am I going to lose my Evil Writer's badge for not thinking of that? 
[/b]Quite probably, although I attribute it to having read "War and Peace" by Tolstoy. Although to be fair, I only think of that because my mom thought that the killing off of Pierre's wife so he could marry Natasha was an example of convenient removal. I had to point out to her that it was actually a suicide, and anyway if I remember correctly she divorced Pierre first, so it was not even clearly needed to get him married to Natasha, although the Church sustaining Mother Russia might not have view Pierre as truly divorced and allowed to remarry, so the killing off might have been needed.
