(urth) Hyacinth

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Y'all might be on to something here imho...Borski did a chapter on GW's negative portrayal of homosexual characters ( as I'm sure you all know....)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:52:26 
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--- On Thu, 11/3/11, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Hyacinth
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011, 8:49 AM
> Marc Aramini wrote (03-11-2011
> 15:41):
> > --- On *Thu, 11/3/11, Craig Brewer /<cnbrewer at yahoo.com>/*
> wrote:
> >     From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>
> >     Subject: Re: (urth) Hyacinth
> >     To: "The Urth Mailing List"
> <urth at lists.urth.net>
> >     Date: Thursday, November 3,
> 2011, 8:30 AM
> >
> >     So let's assume that Hy is in
> fact male/transsexual/altered. What does
> >     that mean for Silk and how we
> interpret him?
> >
> >     I don't want this to be a
> dismissive question. I suppose I'm just
> >     looking for what it means if
> that's the case. Are we suggesting that
> >     it's Wolfe (as a cliche
> Catholic) undermining Silk's sanctity? Or is it
> >     the opposite, opening him to a
> kind of grace and love beyond traditional
> >     sexual relations? Or is it
> something else altogether?
> >
> > I agree, I don't like it. Unless it means she is the
> super false kind of
> > untrue love that can still somehow be transformed to
> sanctity (lying,
> > cheating whore can we make her any lower ... oh yeah
> ex-man)
> 
> Well... does nobody really remember Silk's absolute shock
> after his wedding 
> night?

And going to kill himself on the airship.  Just cheating with Saba, or worse?
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