traveling north

David Stockhoff · 03 Jun 2010, 20:17 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:17:07 -0400
Subject: (urth) traveling north
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Bingo. 

Although who exactly is meant by "we"---since the Heiros are knee-deep in the manufacturing process? Do they express some universal desire for such a figure?

And who determines the requirements for such a project? I suppose the schedule wouldn't matter if you have all of time...

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Among the things I think the story is meant to show

1)  If Jesus Christ didn't exist, we'd have to invent a roughly similar
figure,

2)  If that roughly similar figure was a flawed human being, the resulting
religion would be considerable worse (Wolfe cheats here--Severian isn't a
great sage or moral teacher--the Christ-figure of his world's religion was
generally not a nice man), and

3)  Because all faiths are salvific insofar as they participate in truth,
even the mock-Christianity of the New Sun world leads to genuine moments of
grace.

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