No, it isn't quite pver the top (Jojo is a white boy with some brains, yet he would hardly be capable of courtliness). Wolfe does have a poetic sense of romance... much of the novel is about the sexual licentiousness on campuses that stamps out romance...a Governor receives oral sex right and is witnessed by students just before delivering the commencement address...a frat house has seven minute rooms to take their intoxicated groupies up into... non stop drinking and pot smoking... the usual hijinks, but remarkably described. So Charlotte, a modest genius from the hill country of North Carolina with the lithe body of a runner, is a sensation on campus.
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
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