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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:46:04 -0500 From: James JordanSubject: Re: (urth) catamites and narrators At 11:28 PM 9/12/2002, you wrote: >Just a short note based off an old point made by James Jordan: >he claimed that Wolfe would never have a protagonist with homosexual >encounters. However,there is some evidence that works against this both in >Fifth Head of Cerberus, in the relationship of Blood and Musk, and in the >strange commentary made by Severian about little Severian - (when he insists >that he didn't have anything to do with molesting the child, who would have >thought of that before he brought it up? He plants the seed in the mind with >his occupatio - "I didn't do it, so don't think I did") Sorry I was unclear. I meant a "Christian moral exemplar" like Silk would not be involved in homosexual acts, in Wolfe. Severian is a "Christian symbol," but not much of a moral exemplar. Nutty-Ria --