Fairies and Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 02 Apr 2012, 17:47 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:47:01 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fairies and Wolfe
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On 4/2/2012 10:25 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> True. That term occurs in embedded stories rather than in Severian's
> mouth at least half the time, which has led me to consider it a kind of
> secondary belief, i.e., perhaps folkloric. Note that in your quote
> Severian sees the Pancreator with a hand, unlike the Increate, so it is
> in a way a specifically human understanding or extension of the
> Increate's being. As such it must fall short.

Dude, it's the Trinity.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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