Silk corrupted?

brunians at brunians.org · 22 Jan 2009, 20:20 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:20:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Silk corrupted?
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Severian (and Silk) are human beings. They each have a single, human,
nature. Christ is unique, in Christianity in that He has a dual nature,
being both human and God. He is the only being in the Christian World that
has such a dual nature. He can manifest through other beings, and this is
what is happening with Severian and Silk.

Now in India there is an identical concept, but it is a class of beings
(the avataras) not one single once for all exemplar. Occasionally
manifesting an avatar is one of the ways that God interacts with His
creation.

This fact, that there are records of only one of these guys in the West
but a number of them in India may just be because the Indian records are
older and more complete.

.

> The recent discussion of Silk (as translated by Horn) reminds me of a
> question I've always had about book 4 of the Long Sun. As preface to the
> question, I was intrigued by Wolfe's talking about Severian being an
> aspect
> of the Outsider, but not a Christ as much as a Christian (Christ being a
> man
> not corrupted.) Was Silk currupted by Typhon?
>
> One thing that's always bothered me is in the trip to Mainframe, Horn's
> retelling of Silk seems to grow more and more distant until at the end of
> the book I'm not really sure what Silk is thinking from the narrative.
> Specifically why does Silk nearly throw himself from the blimp? I've
> always
> thought that at Mainframe Silk came to realize the presence of Typhon in
> him, and that makes him suicidal. Not to include a spoiler from the short
> sun series, but the trip to mainframe seems to be a turning point for Silk
> which eventually leads him to being the hollowed out shell of the BotSS.
> Am
> I off base with this?
> -s
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