This week in Google alerts

Andrew Mason · 07 Nov 2011, 21:59 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:59:58 +0000
Subject: (urth) This week in Google alerts
Message-ID: <CAM3O41LsTH_Piihu1JR_U7Tm1MO7xfCLeyrxV95TR4WMgtwzJQ at mail.gmail.com>

Gerry Quinn wrote:
. ?There?s another very interesting use of ?aspect?, though:
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> ?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]

The interesting thing, I think, about both Kypris or Severian as
aspects of the Outsider, and Tartaros as aspect of Mainframe, is that
'aspect of X' clearly doesn't just mean a form which X assumes; they
are people with a real existence, a consciousness of their own, but
somehow forming part of a greater whole. I would guess the same is
true of Silk as aspect of Pas.

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