miles, jonas, and that sailor guy, and sea/interplanetary vessels

Lee Berman · 10 Feb 2011, 00:33 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:33:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) miles, jonas, and that sailor guy,
	and sea/interplanetary vessels
Message-ID: <SNT123-W55D7019387FA42DD696BF8CFEC0 at phx.gbl>



>Jeff Wilson: Are the undines soldiers who want love like Eckhart's devil-angels, do 
>you think?
 
The undine says she only wants Severian's love. But they have to sneak off underwater
somewhere to do it and Severian is ambivalent about the whole thing.
 
Eckhart says: 
 
>"Tests for the devil and angel are as follows. Anything an angel does is done in the 
>light, orderly and clearly and the soul rejoices in the amiable presence of an angel;
>also it is a sign to know him by that she is left with a sense of pleasure. In 
>counterfeiting this, the devil makes it vague, confused, ambiguous, and the soul,
>affrighted at the haunting of the fiend, is restless and depressed and by this she may
>know it is the devil."
 
So I don't know what to think.  What do you think?

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