# SPAM Re: Urth before Earth *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Jul 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 *22 Jul 2006, 17:49* Somewhere I read Wolfe quoted as saying Severian was an (one of many?) aspect of the Outsider. Dan'l thinks: > God is outside,in NS; when he incarnates and enters inside, it must change > everything. Not least, it must end the whole cycle of universes, and fix > one - ours - as the only reality, now with a definite beginning & definite > end. Sounds Buddhist, yes? They reach their Nirvana by escaping the endless reincarnation cycle of birth and death. -bsharp --- ### Iorwerth Thomas *24 Jul 2006, 16:53 · in reply to b sharp* > From: "b sharp" > Sounds Buddhist, yes? They reach their Nirvana by escaping the endless > reincarnation cycle of birth and death. True, but bear in mind that at least one other Catholic author has used the comparison between a linear (and progressive) spirtitual history and a cyclical secular one: Walter M Miller Jr in 'A Canticle for Liebowitz' [1]. [1] A rather wonderful little book, even if one does wonder as to what became of all those Protestants... ---