Resurrections

David Stockhoff · 01 Aug 2010, 17:40 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:40:41 -0400
Subject: (urth) Resurrections
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Ah, very good.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 7/31/2010 1:27 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> What's the reference to Joseph's dream?
>
> In URTH XXXVIII, while Severian is also a seer imprisoned by the 
> authorities, there is a literal biblical reference to it, immediately 
> followed by a dream with Revelations imagery, or maybe Peter's:
>
> "In those moments I knew my power, that could draw whole worlds to me 
> and incremate them as an artist burns his earths for pigments. In the 
> brown book, now lost, that I carried and read so long that at last I 
> had committed to memory its whole contents (though they had once 
> seemed inexhaustible) there is this passage: 'Behold, I have dreamed a 
> dream more; the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to 
> me.' Its words show plainly how much wiser the peoples of ages long 
> past were than we are now; not for nothing is that book titled The 
> Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky.
> "I too dreamed a dream. I dreamed that I called the power of my star 
> down upon myself, and rising, crossed (Thecla as well as Severian) to 
> our barred door, and grasping its bars, bent them until we could 
> easily have passed between them. But when we bent them it seemed we 
> parted a curtain, and beyond it beheld a second curtain and Tzadkiel, 
> neither larger than ourselves nor smaller, with the dirk afire. "
>
>

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