Grand Unified Theory

Lee Berman · 30 Aug 2010, 11:18 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:18:29 -0400
Subject: (urth) Grand Unified Theory
Message-ID: <SNT123-W163D45A264FED8065C826FCF890 at phx.gbl>


>Dave Tallman- He teaches like Jesus in New Viron, then goes back
>to the Whorl to lead and teach them as they move on to new worlds. It
>ends with the five-fold blessing of "Good fishing!" as Silk and his
>disciples become fishers of men.

This is the sort interpretation I was expecting to end the series all
along. If we trace the arc of the story back to Severian the apprentice, 
perhaps nothing else would do.

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