Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 04 Jun 2010, 22:21 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:21:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe
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On 6/4/2010 4:29 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> OK, it's not obvious.
>
> Severian doesn't want to leave the Sand Garden.
>
> Why?
>
> What desert might particularly interest Gene Wolfe?
>
> Perhaps Father Inire had a face to face with Jesus during a certain forty
> day period.

If I was in the "Urth preceeds Earth" camp, I might suggest that's why 
Sev feels as if he belonged there, standing where Jesus was meant to be. 
Or perhaps he merely feels it appropriate as various other prophets have 
sought it out, like John the Baptist. In fact, John might be the central 
figure of the Urthly NT, managing to get himself crucified instead of 
beheaded on that iteration.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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