A red heart-shaped token beside two cream dice on a golden background.

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Claire Otoms

The funny thing I find about love is that it’s the one game you lose without even playing it.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Love is imagined as a game that can bring defeat even to someone who never joins in. That reversal unsettles the usual link between playing and losing. The speaker finds a rueful kind of humour in a contest that seems impossible to avoid.

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