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I know the Whorl left Urth long before the Flood of the New Sun ... but still, Craig's suggestion of a deliberate conflation of the Flood and the Second Coming can only make me thi…
25 Nov 2008, 21:14
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Jordan, I was having exactly that slippery series of thoughts when I first threw the idea out there. Now at least we are all confounded together.…
25 Nov 2008, 21:00
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24 Nov 2008, 22:50
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That's it exactly---Severian is the Executioner, or Harvester, of Urth. He dies and is resurrected, but that's a smaller part of his story. Christ will wield a flaming sword, but h…
24 Nov 2008, 22:15
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Message: 4 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:19:09 -0700 From: Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Severian as reverse Christ (or something) To: urth at lists.urth.…
22 Nov 2008, 23:05
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I very much agree with this. However, I would see the below possibilities as perfectly legitimate answers to the question "How is Severian like Christ?" Wolfe clearly wanted to …
22 Nov 2008, 22:44
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Yes, exactly (to both of you). There have been many essentially fictional reworkings of the Christ figure over the centuries, some within and some, like Wolfe's, outside the trad…
21 Nov 2008, 21:20
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Just to stir the pot again---if Severian IS Apu Punchau, is there any reason why he can't BE Christ? Do we not live in the same universe as Severian? Therefore, wouldn't the Conc…
21 Nov 2008, 20:18
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My attempt at clarification may have gotten lost because I mistitled my second post. I'll try one more time. I've read very little about Wolfe, or Wolfe's ideas about Wolfe, or …
21 Nov 2008, 13:16
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Let me clarify my thought. I meant that it's almost as though Wolfe read Tertullian (or the debate he was part of) and and responded to him by deliberately constructing a charac…
20 Nov 2008, 21:15
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Recent lurker, first-time poster. Please excuse any formatting offenses! As part of blog discussion on another topic, someone sent me a link regarding the historical development …
20 Nov 2008, 19:49
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Dan'l I found your post in a search on Tracking Song, which I just reread for the 10th (or so) time. I completely agree with your last remark, and I think Tracking Song is a pe…
12 Oct 2008, 12:39
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