Severian's Journey: Happenstance or Masterplan?

James Wynn · 19 Aug 2010, 23:04 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:04:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severian's Journey: Happenstance or Masterplan?
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  On 8/19/2010 4:53 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> The fact that Severian
> has the power to resurrect the dead when Tzadkiel does not possess this power
> suggests the presence of such superior beings.

One quibble. We use dogs to sniff out drugs and bombs because we lack 
that ability ourselves. The Hierofoos are the ideal imagined by the 
Hieros. But they are not necessarily the superset of them in every 
possible way and in every possible mutation. In fact, I suppose that the 
Hierofoos really don't really understand Sev's powers in a 
reverse-engineering sense. Which is why they manipulate his activities 
rather than just creating a HieroSev for each mantanvara.

u+16b9

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