Abstract
According to various sources, the number 11,000 is not only exaggerated; it is probably an erroneous translation of the abbreviation 11M, meaning eleven martyrs, but which one scribe took to be the Roman numeral 11,000. [...]Ursula's story supports my reading of female isolation and imposed suffering in Boullosa's work as facilitated by the breaking of matrilineal lines, a rupture which usually involves the death of the mother or the girl's separation from the mother's love and physical presence. [...]the Christian trilogy of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as symbolized in the fatal arrows, pierce her perfect girl's heart instead, and she is eternally married to Christ instead of to the prince Etherius. In order to prolong his own life, and since he can no longer distinguish one undesirable virgin from the other, Aura renounces his deal with God. [...]the institutions of Christianity, capitalism, and masculinist sexuality fail and identity is effaced.