Father Inire as Dionysus

António Pedro Marques · 23 Oct 2011, 02:43 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:43:57 +0100
Subject: (urth) Father Inire as Dionysus
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No dia 23/10/2011, ?s 03:20, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu:
> Wolfe has stated that Severian can be considered an aspect of The Outsider.  If Wolfe recognizes his role as demiurge in creating the Sun series, is it possible he has put himself into the story AS The Outsider?

Wolfe has said the Outsider is a spiritual god. That - substantiated by what we see of the Outsider - doesn't strike me as demiurge-like. 

> This recognizes Severian as an aspect of himself but also makes Father Inire (and Typhon and Tzadkiel the Angel of Judgement) as aspects of himself. 
> Could this be the reason Severian is so reticent about Father Inire? Does Wolfe make him do this to hide (but also provide a clue) that Gene Wolfe is lurking in various disguises throughout this story. Afterall, creating such human-form agents to accomplish their goals in the world is something that demiurges are prone to do. 

'FI is GW' sounds terrific.

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