lots of stuff

David Stockhoff · 13 Jul 2010, 01:02 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:02:44 -0400
Subject: (urth) lots of stuff
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Exactly. And this does not make Tzadkiel evil, but he is not good either.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
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>> I too was horrified by the flood in TUotNS (though I'd stopped enjoying the book
>> long before that because I felt the writing was far below Wolfe's standard).
>> The afterlife doesn't mitigate the disaster unless the victims got as good a
>> chance to repent as they would have if they hadn't been killed.  True, the Bible
>> says God caused a flood, but he seems to have thought it was a bad idea
>> afterwards, which he apparently didn't after the flood Severian caused.
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> I think it is intended to be horrible.
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> I also think that there's an important point you're missing -- God
> doesn't cause this flood; Severian and the Hiero(foo)s do. God
> responded to the Noachian flood by promising that he would never again
> destroy the world this way; but he doesn't promise that creatures
> won't do likewise.
>
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