Hyacinth

Marc Aramini · 03 Nov 2011, 17:52 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Hyacinth
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There is also a fair amount of ambiguously creepy same sex molestation in Wolfe for an author considered so heterodox in his morality system, even extending to a Catholic priest being raped at one point.  The gay warrior who likes young men in the Soldier series is actually likeable and manly.

I actually don't like reading that stuff into his texts, to be honest, as I sometimes do tend to be the heterodox fellow with a slant toward benevolent fascism that Wolfe is misconstrued as being, but some of the undercurrents tend to point at times to things I don't like (suicidal Silk, for example)

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