lots of stuff

David Stockhoff · 13 Jul 2010, 16:09 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:09:10 -0400
Subject: (urth) lots of stuff
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But who's the archon of this universe? Inire, appropriately mysterious 
and aged as a Titan, or Tzadkiel, violator of all known laws of scale 
and appearance? Is one ruler below and the other ruler above?

The Titans rebelled against Time. Hmm...

John Watkins wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:45 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com 
> <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         It appears that Severian is, potentially, not the only one
>         with parallels to Christ.
>
> Heh.
>  
> Inire.
>  
> Severian.
>  
> Thecla.
>  
> There's another trinity for you.  Quite literally the father who 
> created the Autarchy and brought it to its end, his (presumably 
> figurative) son, the scion of the father's ages of planning and 
> manipulation (including possibly genetic manipulation?) and the 
> pretty-literal ghost.
>  
> I kind of like the notion that, contra Witz, Severian is the logos of 
> Inire, not the Increate.
>  
>
>     u+16b9
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