Maybe you need to stop "acting" and behaving like this is a game. What if whatever someone tells you back fires and you get yourself or someone else hurt. If this is all a game to you take whatever advice anyone tells you and continue to play games.
If this man or your relationship is of importance, get it together and make it work, but who am I to tell you this, you know exactly what you're doing.
Sounds like the best thing you can do is to play it cool. Act as though you are going on with your life. Look your most attractive best when you go over there, join a gym, go places with your friends, etc.When he sees that you are moving on, he may change his mind.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.