Silk corrupted?

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Jan 2009, 23:01 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:01:41 -0800
Subject: (urth) Silk corrupted?
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
> 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.

Interpretive violence. If that's too strong for you, OK.

> 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?

I have long since given up trying to make sense of this and accepted it as
a canonical miracle in the Briahverse.

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