Typhon's Confidence (plus some other questions)

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 31 Jan 2014, 16:26 · from 2014-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:26:32 -0800
Subject: (urth) Typhon's Confidence (plus some other questions)
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Darrell Burgan <darrell.burgan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I know Severian is broadly considered to be a Christ figure, but to me
> that symbolism goes only so far. Severian is also capable of acts of
> considerable violence and other deplorable acts, things that the Christ
> would never do.
>

"We say Jesus was a carpenter, but the only thing we are told he actually
made was a whip."
--Gene Wolfe


> Ironically I find Silk to be much more of a Christlike figure in that
> regard.
>
> Silk is more of a Moses figure...
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