# Sev: Satisfactory Conciliator? *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 23 Nov 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *23 Nov 1999, 20:35* With regard to the question of how satisfactory Sev's career in the Age of the Monarch is as the basis for the legend of the Conciliator: one mustn't forget Canog's role as propagandist. His BOTNS, based on Sev's account of the future given in prison, might be a very skilful work of prophetic literature--as persuasive as the Gospels have been, perhaps. By this means, a few random miracles could acquire great resonance--a comment by Wolfe on the power of the written word, which records, and supersedes by outlasting, mere actions. --- ### Jim Jordan *24 Nov 1999, 00:45 · follows Nicholas Gevers* > At 08:35 PM 11/23/99 -0800, you wrote: > With regard to the question of how satisfactory Sev's > career in the Age of the Monarch is as the basis for > the legend of the Conciliator: one mustn't forget > Canog's role as propagandist. His BOTNS, based on > Sev's account of the future given in prison, might be > a very skilful work of prophetic literature--as > persuasive as the Gospels have been, perhaps. By this > means, a few random miracles could acquire great > resonance--a comment by Wolfe on the power of the > written word, which records, and supersedes by > outlasting, mere actions. Good thought. Probably more analogous to the prophets, however, than to the gospels. Nutria ---