Adam and Atom

Michael Straight · 05 Apr 1999, 16:59 · from urth-v0025.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Adam and Atom
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:59:08
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On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Alex David Groce wrote:

> On Apr 3,  7:19pm, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> >     The Hierodules bow down to Severian. Why? He wouldn't even be on my=
 long
> > list of candidates for world savior.=20
>=20
> On the other hand, as I think PEACE and BOTNS would suggest, Wolfe
> probably doesn't see Severian as an anti-hero, but as like a real man.  In
> this, I think there's a point--not an anti-hero, but a dark everyman. =20

You make a good case for why Wolfe would write about someone like
Severian, but I'm not sure it answers the question of why the Hierodules
would choose Severian as a savior. =20

Are you suggesting they have a similar agenda?  Perhaps Tad has a wager
with with Satan?  "Betcha I can even make a saint out of this guy." "A
torturer?  No way--yer on."=20

-Rostrum

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