Roger, Jessica and all things Queer.

[Chris Stolz]

>How then are we to take the seduction of Tchitcherine by Geli the witch? 
> It may be an unwholesome relationship but there is a positive outcome:  
>Enzian is rescued from his brother and he and Tchitcherine pass 
>by one another in peace.  This seems to make a difference to the narrator 
>who elevates the "magic" of the accidental and coincidental over the 
>fantasy of controling and objectifing sexuality.  Any thoughts?

good point...I think that _GR_ is at pains to show how everything is
connected to everything else, so (as in real life) sex is never purely sex,
or love simply love, but everything represents something else.  There's lots
of narrator's comments in the book about longing for some kind of purely
personal, wholesome private love, something that's not magical, exploitative
or whatever.  rarely seen, though.
chris stolz

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