Hyacinth and Silk

David Duffy08 Feb 2002, 07:09original

I think, just as Gevers suggests Wolfe is deconstructing all the other genres in BotLS, he is having a hack at profane love as not (necessarily) being a solution to the existential questions. I am reminded explicitly of Of Human Bondage. | David Duffy. ,-_|\ | email: davidD at qimr.edu.au ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101 / * | Epidemiology Unit, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research \,-./ | 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia v

Andy Robertson08 Feb 2002, 06:49original

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From: "David Duffy" <davidD at qimr.edu.au> I think, just as Gevers suggests Wolfe is deconstructing all the other genres in BotLS, he is having a hack at profane love as not (necessarily) being a solution to the existential questions. I am reminded explicitly of Of Human Bondage.

So how does that relate to the "false-but-deeply-felt humanity" of the inhumi, and its equivalent sexuality? Is Hyacinth the converse of Jahlee: a blood-drinking reptile trapped in the body of a beautiful woman? A human being with an inhumi's soul? hartshorn .

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