PEACE: Sherry as Mrs. Ted Singer?

StoneOx17 · 25 Oct 2002, 12:58 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: StoneOx17 at aol.com
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE: Sherry as Mrs. Ted Singer?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:58:51 EDT
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Mantis writes:

> Here's a wild thought: what if swinging Ted Singer did the honorable=20
> thing and married bad-girl Sherry Gold?

But that same paragraph shows Ted marries Melissa.  "... two-headed
Ted and Lisa into which each less-than-half had vanished more or less=20
utterly and (though the monster is not completely indissoluble still)=20
never to reappear."

Despite the usual meaning of "the beast with two backs," the "never=20
to reappear" makes it clear that in this case, Wolfe is talking about=20
marriage and not just sex.

But I suspect that you're right that Ted was one of the boys Sherry=20
slept with.  Do we really know that Ted and Sherry weren't in high=20
school together?  Is there anything that puts Ted working with Aaron=20
and Den in the same time frame as the Gold Hunt, and not a couple=20
of years later, when Ted might be out of high school?  Did Ted go to=20
college?  Would that be a job requirement?

-- Stone Ox

--=20

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