# Hyacinth and Silk

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 08 Feb 2002*

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### David Duffy
*08 Feb 2002, 07:09*

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_.

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### Andy Robertson
*08 Feb 2002, 06:49 · follows David Duffy*

----- Original Message -----

> 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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