It's unlikley that each woman he meets would be so attracted to him, though. <br>I'm not suprised that a 21 year old male would want to have sex, only that he <br>does with such success. Besides which, Wolfe dosen't include anything
<br>arbitrarily, and this is promenant enough to merit inspection.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">
brunians@brunians.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The boy likes sex.<br><br>He's like 21 years old, for Christ's sake.
<br><br>There's no deep symbolic literary meaning.<br><br><br><br>.<br>_<br><br><br>> Okay, so I have a strange sort of question:<br>><br>> Why does Severian sleep with nearly every woman he encounters? I<br>
> considered<br>> that it might provide evidence for the subjectivity of the narrative, but<br>> it<br>> seems to me that there 1) might be other ways to do that and 2) that there<br>> must be some further significance.
<br>><br>> Does anyone have any ideas? I mean, it may not necessarily reflect the<br>> plot<br>> or universe Wolfe has created, but just have a sort of generic literary<br>> significance. It's something I've been wondering about for a long time,
<br>> now.<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>> --Spencer Hensley<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Urth Mailing List<br>> To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>
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