In the beginning of An Abundance of Katherines, Colin is obsessed with having his "Eureka" moment. He is a child prodigy who is terrified of wasting his potential and becoming a mediocre adult, determined instead to do something that will change the world. He believes he's found the answer in a relationship formula. Most of the book is spent playing with relationship variables and creating a workable formula for the potential outcome of relationships....
In the beginning of An Abundance of Katherines, Colin is obsessed with having his "Eureka" moment. He is a child prodigy who is terrified of wasting his potential and becoming a mediocre adult, determined instead to do something that will change the world. He believes he's found the answer in a relationship formula. Most of the book is spent playing with relationship variables and creating a workable formula for the potential outcome of relationships. This formula is meant to predict both the length of a relationship and who will end the relationship first. Colin develops the formula with data from twenty of his own past relationships.
Just when he thinks he's gotten it right, he discovers the formula predicts that his current relationship will only span a few days, and that his girlfriend will dump him. Rather than dumping him, Lindsay leaves him a snarky note poking fun at his obsession with defining relationships. Colin learns that love is not something that can be predicted or quantified, because it is a variable unto itself.
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