Severian as Jonah

Marc Aramini · 16 Apr 2012, 20:45 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Severian as Jonah
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WOW digging that quote.

The city searches the sky for a sign, but no sign shall it have but the sign from the fish?s belly. 
(OBW 93). 
Haven't read the gospels in too long.

--- On Mon, 4/16/12, Matthew Knight <jacobeiserman at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Matthew Knight <jacobeiserman at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Severian as Jonah
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Monday, April 16, 2012, 1:00 PM


Marc, I understand your qualms about Jonah's moral unsuitability. ?But the program is hardly going out on a limb here, as this comparison has a long history. ?Heck, it's even in the Bible, apparently in Christ's own words:


"An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.?For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth"?(Matthew 12:40)
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