The author has since stated several times on Twitter that he is in fact asexual, though the community remains divided on whether or not this counts as representation. Interest in sex and sexual attraction are not synonymous, so this may be considered insufficient information to determine whether or not Victor is canonically asexual. It should be noted that the passage quoted in the book in support of this only describes how Victor is not interested in sex, not that he doesn't feel sexual attraction, and the word "asexual" is never used. The overall reaction from the community was mixed.
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The 85 th annual Cape Cod count, which includes Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, and Eastham, was held on windy but thankfully dry Sunday. Fish Crows normally head south in winter, but this particular group sticks around this area to take advantage of the smorgasbord offered by Bourne landfill, one of the last in the region still uncapped. There were many other nice birds found, including King Eider and Purple Sandpiper in Falmouth, as well as hundreds of Fish Crows. On Saturday’s Buzzard’s Bay count, some damp birders managed to produce an ultra-rare Sedge Wren in Sandwich and a continuing Rufous Hummingbird at a private feeder in Falmouth, which together were the marquee birds for the count. But, as always, the counts weren’t without some fancy highlights. The freeze likely caused many birds to either perish or head south, leaving us with less to count. The wet and windy weather, combined with the deep freeze of last week, kept the species totals modest for these normally bird-rich counts. And so, into the gale force winds and driving rain went the birders of the Buzzard’s Bay and Cape Cod Christmas Bird Counts this past weekend. Like the postal carrier in the famous creed, “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays” the Christmas Bird Counter from the completion of their appointed rounds. The Price of Salt is a brilliantly written story that may surprise Highsmith fans and will delight those discovering her work. They fall in love and set out across the United States, ensnared by society's confines and the imminent disapproval of others, yet propelled by their infatuation. When The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith’s second novel, was finally published in 1952, it had already cost its dishy young author a wagonload of worry, a telephone book full of friends. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. One day, Patricia Highsmith, while working at a doll counter at a department store in the US, met a woman in a mink coat who made her feel odd and swimmy. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic.īased on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of Salt (or Carol) tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany-the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. 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