Fish and Caves

Lee Berman · 22 Dec 2010, 20:38 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:38:54 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fish and Caves
Message-ID: <SNT123-W25CE71DE6E939D4F90E1CACF1B0 at phx.gbl>

>David Stockhoff: I was going to say something about paired opposites too. I don't want to 
>get too programmatic about it, 

Yeah, sometimes what seems interesting in your own head comes out as a bit hackeneyed and
boring when translated to words. For me, anyway.

>but it does make sense that the Increate has aspects that "appear" opposite to us. Whether they are or not is 
>another question, but the mystery of the Increate is lessened the more we think of him as one-dimensional.
>He may favor Love and Like, or Orgies and Parties, but it's more dramatic for him to combine the extremes: 
>Apollo and Dionysus, Love and War, etc. This is not necessarily gnostic logic, but it certainly describes the 
>manifestation of True Godhood in a pagan-like universe of demiurges and semidemiurges.

Well, I suppose Gene Wolfe is faced with some of the same problems in his writing. He doesn't want to be obvious. 
But he probably knows that using the contrast of "love" and "like" to illustrate his points is not very interesting
or compelling. So he has to disguise his polar opposites. 

LOL@ semidemiurges, but I think that is a very accurate description of some Sun series characters. Might even be 
some hemisemidemiurges around (Oreb?) Poor guy....erm....girl has his divinity so divided he/she can't say more than
two words at a time.

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