Severian's sex Life

Spencer Hensley · 07 Apr 2007, 06:44 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: spencer.hensley at gmail.com (Spencer Hensley)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:44:59 -0700
Subject: (urth) Severian's sex Life
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It's unlikley that each woman he meets would be so attracted to him, though.

I'm not suprised that a 21 year old male would want to have sex, only that
he
does with such success. Besides which, Wolfe dosen't include anything
arbitrarily, and this is promenant enough to merit inspection.

On 4/6/07, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
> The boy likes sex.
>
> He's like 21 years old, for Christ's sake.
>
> There's no deep symbolic literary meaning.
>
>
>
> .
> _
>
>
> > Okay, so I have a strange sort of question:
> >
> > Why does Severian sleep with nearly every woman he encounters? I
> > considered
> > that it might provide evidence for the subjectivity of the narrative,
> but
> > it
> > seems to me that there 1) might be other ways to do that and 2) that
> there
> > must be some further significance.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas? I mean, it may not necessarily reflect the
> > plot
> > or universe Wolfe has created, but just have a sort of generic literary
> > significance. It's something I've been wondering about for a long time,
> > now.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --Spencer Hensley
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