Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis

Chris · 26 Nov 2008, 01:08 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:08:45 +0000
Subject: (urth) Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis
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I've read it. There was definitely some good stuff in it, although I strongly disagree with Wright's overall interpretation of the work (and the way he argues for that interpretation). I also feel that it tends to "flatten out" a lot of dimensions of meaning in the text, although that doesn't necessarily speak against it - the text may simply *be* flatter than I perceive it to be, I suppose. But in any event the case he makes is weaker than it should be, and indulges in a bit of cherry-picking insofar as the portions of text he chooses to "attend" to and which he ignores.

Nonetheless that said Wright is pretty sharp and I am glad to have read his work.

-- 
"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set." -- Lin Yutang



> From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:49:20 +0000
> Subject: Re: (urth) Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis
> 
> 
> 
> perhaps someone should pointed me to Attending Daedalus by Peter Wright.
> I just skimmed a bit of it on Google Books, and he's making a thorough dismissal of the type of reading I'm suggesting here.
> I'll have to read this book.
> 
> I'm guessing you've read it Craig?  the argument seems to be along the lines of your collapsing of priorities.
> 
> While I haven't grokked his argument, having only skimmed it, it would seem he's perhaps suggesting all of the mythic elements are just machination of the Heirogrammites, and are not divine in any sense.
> 
> again, I'm not sure of his argument, but if it boils down to that, I'd ask what do the Heirgrogrammites Heirodules symbolize if not Angels and Archangels or Djinn?  Are we to strip away the monomyth because the plot confines it to these sons of mankind engineering their own survival?
> 
> ~witz
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