Been wanting to write about this quite a bit recently. So there is a character in the older Ender series named Olhado Ribeira. His family is disfunctional (aren't we all) and he has metal eyes. Or metal eye. His other eye had a port that can connect to the computer so he can upload "his" "memories." Sort of cool. But he becomes a bit of an outcast as a result. Not that he isn't already for being a Ribeira. Time passes and the rest of his family goes on to become great intellectuals and scientists. He doesn't. He just got a wife and had kids. Card shows this pattern in the Bean sub-series (dare I call it that) with Anton, who discovered the key the subsequently caused Bean to be genetically modified with more mental capacity and shorter life span. And both characters have an interesting withdrawn interest in the world around them, Anton trying to find the key to life, which he finds is love, and Olhado trying to keep his love in his beautiful wife and children. The reappearence of this trait in seperate episodes leads me to believe that Card has this "big picture" type of belief where beyond where everything matters is love. And love only. Which Bean discovers everyone has. Even Achilles. And Ender discovers holds everyone and everything together. So that is my analysis of a anomaly-seeming thing.
~another musing of the ill-informed~
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