Jonas
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Sep 2002
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Joshua A. Solomon — 27 Sep 2002, 09:52

Remember that Wolfe has claimed TBOTNS is a story of a young man (Severian)
searching for love. The women he desires offer, at best, (platonic) shadows
of the divine love that he really needs. At the end of TBOTNS, he blasts
into space/heaven to get himself a piece of that divine love (although, of
course, he already has it, as is demonstrated by his resurrections).

Jonas does a riff on the same theme. He desires a semi-prosthetic woman,
remains unsatisfied, then steps into space/heaven to get himself something
better. He gets (at least semi-) resurrected too.

bee

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