Does anyone else get this really creepy feeling about Galatea? She's in love with Ed Dunkel, to the point of an obsession; while throughout the book the characters are constantly reverting back to old girlfriends/boyfriends/spouses, suddenly "discovering" that they're really in love with this or that person that they had been with a while ago, and that it was a mistake to ever leave them. But in Galatea, this takes a different turn, in that the other characters' longing for a previous partner are usually just fleeting, reflective of their own light attitudes on romance and love, with no base on permanence as per their shifting, responsibility-avoiding personalities. Galatea, though, is a believer in the whole "true devoted love" concept, and is made unhappy by Ed's unstable ways; however, instead of either accepting Ed for who he is or letting him go for another more stable person whom she can be fully devoted to and receive the same in return, Ed's rejection of her only seems to make her more focused on him. She grouses over Ed's lack of attention to her, lists all the ways that he has made her unhappy, and yet tries to do the impossible, to impose her own ideals on him. Her comments about death only make her more unsettling, in commanding Sal to tell Ed that if he doesn't come back to her she will find and kill him; she wants him back with her no matter what, even if she has to kill him just to keep him from running off again.