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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Lee Berman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Father Inire is an alien. Hethor was a sailor on an interstellar/universal<br>spaceship. Both show suggestions of an unhealthy attraction to young human women.<br>
Should we connect these two characters based on that and the mirror connection?<br>Or should we not connect them because it disrupts our image of Father Inire and<br>doesn't fit with the story we know and love?<br><br>
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<div>Actually, I thought we'd decided that Hethor's attraction is to sex dolls/robots, but that he might possibly settle for the right kind of human woman (maybe one who role-plays as a sex doll). As for Inire, it's not clear to me that his fondness for little girls is a sexual interest at all (or even that he is, properly speaking, capable of such sexual interest).</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">FWIW I find much of Greek mythology to have a similar weird understructure. Was Zeus<br>the mighty, heroic god that I (and Gene Wolfe?) admired as a child, who defeated the<br>
monstrous Titans, including Typhon, and ruled among the clouds with fatherly grace?<br>Or was he a creepy guy who killed his father and married his sister and spent his<br>spare time using his power to seduce/rape young girls and boys like Europa and<br>
Ganymede? He is both, right? But I had to mature as a reader and as a person before<br>I could see both sides.<br><br>For me, BotNS is built (NOT coincidentally) like House Absolute. There is a main<br>structure and a second, secret house which has been built co-extensively within it.<br>
As the Secret House was constructed by Father Inire, I find it appropriate to think<br>the secret structure of BotNS is centered on that character. If you don't think there<br>are undiscovered mysteries in the story or don't find the search enjoyable I can<br>
understand that. The main story is really great and I spent years enjoying it on that<br>level alone. But I always felt there was more.<br><br><br><br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>
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