Ceryx (answer to Lee)

James Wynn · 25 May 2011, 11:31 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 06:31:34 -0500
Subject: (urth) Ceryx (answer to Lee)
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> Sergei:
> By the way, the scene in the skill of the Typhon's monument (the 
> mountain) in "the Sword of the Lictor"
> has also a biblical parallel - Devil tempting Jesus in the desert. 
> Devil had taken Jesus to the top of
> a mountain etc.

Also, Typhon offered Severian food (although Severian takes it 
unJesus-like) and dangled him over the precipice.

J.

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