Silk corrupted?

Son of Witz · 22 Jan 2009, 22:56 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:56:58 +0000
Subject: (urth) Silk corrupted?
Message-ID: <W648292421519261232665018@webmail26>

violence?
that may be overstepping.  any great work is larger than it's author's intention.  But I'm sympathetic with your feeling, despite having to poke at it a bit.

What I don't understand, all Christ arguments aside, is "How does a star have the consciousness of Severian? How does a star resurrect humans? How does a star steer time?

just asking.
~witz



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes [mailto:danldo at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 02:46 PM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Silk corrupted?
>
>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I concede, of course, that the Bible takes precedence as a literary work in
>> both stature and history, so Severian and Jesus can never really be
>> coequals. But please let's dispense with the notion---the assumption---that
>> there can only be a single Christ in all of human literature. It's an
>> indefensible position.
>
>Agreed. Writers are free to create as many Christs as they choose, and
>to make them theoanthropoi, divine, etc.
>
>What is key here is that we are interpreting a work by a writer who
>takes the position that Jesus was a unique historical figure, the sole
>Theoanthropos and Redeemer, an event which will not and *can* not
>be repeated. This is *Wolfe's* position, and to interpret his work in
>a way that violates this position is to do that work a violence which
>I cannot condone.
>
>-- 
>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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