What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 08 Jun 2008, 08:28 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:28:27 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> That leaves no choice but to absolve Typhon of responsibility for the black
> hole and place it squarely on the Hierogrammates, with or without the
> Increate's blessing.

Your reasoning here is almost air-tight, except that
1) time travel makes all the time-conditional predicates suspect.
2) a very common Wolfe theme is an evil person's misdeed furthering a 
higher power's plan for the greater good, without the person being any 
less evil or the higher power any less good.

This means that the black hole can be the fault of Typhon *and* it can 
be part of a righteous condemnation for other past or future misdeeds, 
at least in the the author's opinion.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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