# Attending Daedalus *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 12 Jun 2006* > 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. --- ### b sharp *12 Jun 2006, 14:59* Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus? The scholarly language makes me fear I miss the point. I think he is saying that BotNS story is really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address issues like colonization and imperialism and such. Any other thoughts on this? -bsharp --- ### Tristan Davenport *12 Jun 2006, 19:01 · in reply to b sharp* I haven't read Attending Daedalus, but from your description it sounds like the kind of everything-is-political criticism that's fashionable in PoMo academia these days. I believe the same kind of thing has been said about the New Testament, among other works. Tristan tristan_davenport at hotmail.com > From: "b sharp" > Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List > To: urth at lists.urth.net > Subject: (urth) Attending Daedalus > Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:59:54 -0400 > > Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus? The scholarly language > makes me fear I miss the point. I think he is saying that BotNS story is > really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very > nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address > issues like colonization and imperialism and such. Any other thoughts on > this? > > -bsharp > > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Chris *13 Jun 2006, 00:22 · in reply to b sharp* http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0022/0039.shtml http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0307/3817.txt.shtml http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0026/0012.shtml For a few of the older references. I know the book has been mentioned on the list recently as well, at least once by me. > Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus? The scholarly language > makes me fear I miss the point. I think he is saying that BotNS story is > really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very > nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address > issues like colonization and imperialism and such. Any other thoughts on > this? > > -bsharp > > > _______________________________________________ ---