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>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant@maths.tcd.ie>
>Subject: cherryhlist -- inauspicious ages of characters?
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 14:01:39 BST

I was re-reading some of Cherryh's "Hell" books recently, and came across
Julius Caesar musing that 17 was obviuosly an (in)auspicious age for his
sons (Brutus has turned up, amnesiac and 17, Caesarion is 17-with-an-attiude).
This got me thinking about other young men in Cherryh's books. 17 is a bad
age for almost all of them: Vanye kills his brother and is exiled, Justin is
raped, Grant is kidnapped and tortured. Are there others? I think Sandor is
17 when his cousin Ross is killed, for example. Is this a genuine pattern,
or just coincidence? And if it is a pattern, why is 17 so awful for Cherryh's
male characters?
Any thoughts?

			Lesley