Saint Catherine and the Nature of the Flood

Jerry Friedman · 15 Mar 2012, 04:57 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:57:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Saint Catherine and the Nature of the Flood
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> From: Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com>

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>Dan'l,
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>Clearly a lot of the Saints names were added by the translator, we know this. ?But, it's the RITUAL that I'm concerned with. ?Did the translator add that in? ?Because the wheel, the roses, the striking off of the head, all of that is REALLY from Catherines story, regardless of her name. ?That is the story of Saint Catherine. ?So, did the translator completely add in all of that for some reason? ?Or did all of that stuff really occur to Severian. ?And if it happened, it is following the story of a Christian Saint, who wouldn't have existed to generate the story if there hadn't been a Christianity.


I don't think that follows.? Universes are similar to each other, and might affect each (through "morphic resonance"?).? So maybe there could have been a very Catherine-like story, and even a very Christianity-like religion, without an incarnation.

Jerry Friedman

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