Triangles

While teaching literature this year, I was discussing with my students the idea that a tragedy always has leftovers, and hence tends towards triangular relationships. Three sisters, three rivals, three corners of a love affair... all these make relationships impossible to balance and produce disasters.

In fact, even if you have pentagons, they will reduce to triangles and then to tragedies. Someone will be hurt, left out, unbalanced. Oddness is bad. Haha.