The Severian Behind Curtain #3

b sharp · 17 Jun 2008, 03:01 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: bsharporflat at hotmail.com (b sharp)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:01:15 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
Message-ID: <BAY103-W102F59102DA8511C9E8687D7A80 at phx.gbl>

Thalassocrat writes: 
>I think "the Temptation" has to refer to something like it would in 
>our world, which is certainly the Temptation of Eve. In Sev's 
>world, the Temptation of Meschiane. At least on the basis of Dr 
>Talos' play, you can have this story without Christianity. 

I must agree that in this situation the play's the thing! But if I remember
Eschatology and Genesis correctly, the temptation is for Meschia, to which
he succumbed with Jahi in the first creation and to which he probably will 
not succumb with the Contessa in the impending creation. Either way, the 
story would appear in Urth's legends thanks to Canog and a visual depiction
would make an appropriate decoration for a brothel. Better than a 
Severian-Typhon image, anyway.
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