Urth-Earth links

larry miller · 14 Oct 2011, 21:58 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: biglar1984 at gmail.com (larry miller)
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:58:46 -0400
Subject: (urth) Urth-Earth links
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I think that your theory as the source of all books is interesting.
That seems more in line with his role in the other series.

On 10/14/11, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 4:08 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>> But there is evey ridiculous allegorical parallels.  At one point, he
>> is tempted by the satan figure with almost identical verbiage.  Bow
>> before me and all this will be yours..  are you hungry?  I got some
>> food for you too.  The temptation of Christ in the wilderness being
>> replayed verbatim, healing the sick, resurrecting the dead, hastening
>> an event that almost ends the world, overtly overtly Christ like.
>
> Thanks for that---I had thought of Typhon as Satan without knowing how
> accurate that was.
>
> The discussion of which monarch destroyed books, repented, then
> collected them in the Citadel now becomes a little more significant to
> me, and Typhon becomes more significant. If Typhon collected all the
> books in the Citadel---and perhaps even established the Citadel itself,
> using only ships that did not escape or which were nonfunctioning---then
> he is the source of all the books of myth that Severian read. That makes
> him as important in New Sun as he is in Long Sun: everyone lives in
> Typhon's world, the world he created or the world that remained after he
> was overthrown. He is the father of both.
>
> If Typhon is Satanic, then the Gnostic structure of Urth becomes a bit
> more concrete. He'd be the ruler of the lowest material plane to the
> Outsider's/Increate's highest immaterial plane.
>
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