love & the inhumi

Andy Robertson · 07 Feb 2002, 11:40 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) love & the inhumi
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:40:15 -0000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice K. Turner" <aturner3 at nyc.rr.com>
> > and Hyacinth's ghost in the ruined palace:  part mocking, part loving.
> > What happened to them?
>
> Nice post, hartshorn. Which is to say that I too have thought about these
> things. How in the world could two so fundamentally different characters
> have found a way to get along? With Silk it would be the healing power of
> sex,

or love . . .

now, come to think of it the whole business of the inhumi is about "the
healing power of love", isn' it?

If people stop hating the inhumi, who get their souls from people, will stop
being god's scourge.

Unfortunately Wolfe is not offering any facile answer here.   The healing
power of sexual love does not work particularly well where the inhumi are
concerned:  Jahlee's "humanisation" and interior sexualisation and love for
Horn/Silk only leads her to try to kill Nettle.

If anything the message of the books seems to be that you *can't* love the
alien, or that it is a task that requires a god's patience.

    hartshorn

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