Messianic

Ori Kowarsky · 23 Nov 1999, 23:28 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Ori Kowarsky" <orik at sprint.ca>
Subject: Re: (urth) Messianic
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:28:12
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Nutria wrote:

> I think Wolfe's premise is that before the coming of Christ, the world was
>ruled by violent and imperialistic empires.

...As opposed to the last two thousand years of European and world history?


> But the Gospel is still there. It's underground -- where Severian
>encounters the missionaries near the underground sea, where people are
>buried -- catacombs? It survives in garbled form, as in Dr. Talos's play,
>as it survives in garbled form in the Long Sun.

Please explain to me how it survives, where we see evidence of this.

Ori


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