male hyacinth

maa32 · 02 Sep 2002, 08:29 · from urth-v0209.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) male hyacinth
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 01:29:43 -0700
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A couple months ago I posted on the evidence for a male hyacinth, and I was=20
taken aback to discover that someone else thought that up independently - i=
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was kind of a joke.  Let me briefly go over why I thought so: right before=20
Silk meets Hyacinth for the first time, he finds all kinds of statues of bo=
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toys for the gods: Ganymede and Catamitus, both boy lovers that I normally=20
associate with Musk.  But Hyacinthus is the same kind of mythic figure: mal=
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lover of Apollo, stricken dead by the jealous wind.  But instead of Musk, h=
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immediately meets Hyacinth, who has fake breasts.  Then later, in Calde of =
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Long Sun ,Patera Quetzal, when Silk claims that he slept with a woman, says=
 he=20
doesn't believe that his augur has done that.  It sounds like nothing, but=20
Wolfe has a ton of those double entendres in his work.  I'm just surprised=20
that someone else came up with the same thematic idea - the evidence isn't =
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sketchy as the evidence that suggest that Patera Pike is Blood's father, bu=
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it's pretty sketchy.  I don't see the chem part as convincing, but I think=20
Hyacinth could certainly be an ex-male who had a little transformation enac=
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and it explains the sterility of Silk's relationship.
I don't know how seriously to take these things, really.  Not as seriously =
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a take a lot of the other stuff I post.
Marc Aramini

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