fully divine and fully human

Jeff Wilson · 26 Nov 2008, 16:20 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:20:37 -0600
Subject: (urth) fully divine and fully human
In-Reply-To: <14762.67.142.130.18.1227662380.squirrel at brunians.org>
References: <452379.64105.qm at web58208.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
	<14762.67.142.130.18.1227662380.squirrel at brunians.org>
Message-ID: <492D7755.9090409 at io.com>

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>>                                                               Severian is
>> both a fraud and a conciliator, and this is something that I can find only
>> in Wolfe. A false Christ can still get the job done by pretending to be
>> what he wants the people to believe he is.
> 
> Roger Zelazny did a similar thing, most excellently, with The Buddha in
> "Lord Of Light".

There's also a 1992 Steve Martin movie _Leap of Faith_ where a fake 
faith healer conman becomes so persuasive that when he leads the marks 
in prayer, unplanned non-fake miracles begin to occur.

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

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