Sev's family tree/gender bender

Gerry Quinn · 01 Feb 2011, 22:08 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:08:23 -0000
Subject: (urth) Sev's family tree/gender bender
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>

> The attraction the old person has for Fechin's face doesn't seem very 
> masculine to me, unless
> in a homosexual way. But Fechin can get anything from women, even a 
> precious piece of real paper.
> The old person being a woman explains a lot of this for me.

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I can't remember what her name was, but she was truly beautiful, the way the 
quietest are sometimes. I never knew up till then that Fechin knew her, but 
he asked me to wait, and I sat down on the first step in front of the gate." 
[--]

"He wasn't inside long, but when he came out, with the girl looking out the 
window, I knew what they had done. I looked at him, and he spread those 
long, thin, monkey arms. How could he share what he'd had? In the end, he 
made the girl give me half a loaf of bread and some fruit. He drew my 
picture on one side of the paper and the girl's on the other, but he kept 
the pictures."

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How could he share what he'd had?  Very easily, surely, if the speaker was a 
girl!

That suggests that the speaker was male, and if he is indeed indicating an 
attraction to Fechin, it was a homosexual one.  Evidently Fechin was not 
much into androgyny.

- Gerry Quinn

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