Sev: Satisfactory Conciliator?
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 23 Nov 1999
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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.

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Jim Jordan — 24 Nov 1999, 00:45
  follows, by subject match 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

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