Doors: opening the man trap

maa32 · 16 Jan 2003, 18:19 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) Doors: opening the man trap
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:19:42 -0700
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I have a hard time accepting that Wolfe would ever be sympathetic to a=20
feminine point of view, especially when attempting to equate the moral stan=
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of the novel There Are Doors with a perspective analogous to Graves.

The very premise of the novel is that sex with a woman can kill you dead,=20
dead, dead.  Is reproduction worth it?  Of course Mr. Green wants the godde=
ss.
 Perhaps choosing earthly love is bad if it could kill you.  He is an ordin=
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man who cannot free himself from the ordinary entrapment - the flowering=20
stigma of the goddess, which exists only to trap his pollen.  I see the nov=
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as the failure of ordinary men to overcome the sexual drive.  While love mi=
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be worth it, the love Wolfe talks about is not necessarily sexual in nature=
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I think.

Mr. Green is just kind of dumb.

Marc Aramini

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