fully divine and fully human

Son of Witz · 26 Nov 2008, 17:07 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:07:18 +0000
Subject: (urth) fully divine and fully human
Message-ID: <W190273046263431227719238@webmail26>

so do any of you actually read this as Severian being merely a dupe and that none of the transcendental themes have their source or resolution in God?
and if so, why? Is it that the manipulations of the post-humans cannot some how have a higher mandate beyond them?

Of course it's interesting to speculate on all sorts of subtexts here, I'm just wondering if any of you have settled on this sort of interpretation.

~witz


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Wilson [mailto:jwilson at io.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 08:20 AM
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>Subject: Re: (urth) fully divine and fully human
>
>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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