This week in Google alerts

Lee Berman · 04 Nov 2011, 13:31 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:31:29 -0400
Subject: (urth) This week in Google alerts
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>Gerry Quinn: ?Is it known that all the gods are Mainframe??  Sciathan awaited an 
>explosion with some anxiety; when it did not cone, he added, ?Equally is Mainframe 
>all gods.  Mainframe in its aspect of darkness, which in this tongue is termed Tartaros, 
>issued my instructions.? [Exodus]
 
>Blood stooped to examine the triptych. "Where's Pas?" Silk pointed.
>"That whirlwind? I thought he was an old man with two heads." "Any representation of a god is 
>ultimately a lie," Silk explained. "It may be a convenient lie, and it may even be a reverent 
>one; but it's ultimately false. Great Pas might choose to appear as your old man, or as the 
>spiralling storm which is his eldest representation. Neither image would be more nearly true 
>than the other, or more true than any other - merely more appropriate."

Great quotes.
 
>Clearly this Jesus was at least an "aspect" or "host" of the Outsider
 
>Andrew Mason: He would have to be a form of the Outsider, and it's possible that he
>was the first. Also, we aren't told about everything Silk sees, so he may have seen lots 
>of other forms of the Outsider which we don't know about....the forms of the Outsider 
>in the _Sun_cycle would seem to be people through whom he has spoken or acted -Kypris and 
>Severian are our clearest examples - and there are thousands of them.

Recalls to mind the Hindu "10,000 names of God". I think Gerry's quote above nicely suggests
that Tartaros is a Mainframe aspect of The Outsider. He does seem to have some special qualities
which belie his supposed disability. And Tartaros is Pas' son. Father-son-father, etc.
 
>Gerry Quinn: That?s why harping on a reference to Dionysus as a form of the Outsider, for example, 
>as if it were the key to some great secret cosmology (even though Dionysus is one of many gods so 
>described) is getting Wolfe?s world completely ass-backward, just as it is getting it ass-backward 
>to read Book of the New Sun as some hermetic gnostic scroll.

Oh okay! Thanks for clearing that up Gerry. Glad we finally have an ultimate authority here to 
clarify things. It's really nice to have an omnicient electronic god here in our little forum. Would 
it be okay if I called you Gerry-Pas from now on? And, if I may be so presumptuous, may I ask if you 
are a blond or brunette (or both)?

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