Who Wants to be a Torturer? (was Quotehunt)

William Ansley · 06 Jul 2000, 23:43 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: (urth) Who Wants to be a Torturer? (was Quotehunt)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:43:56
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Is that your final answer? Sorry. Ooooh, you were so close!

The correct answer is:

"In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That=20
we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable=20
sin."

But you still get some lovely parting gifts. <g>

William Ansley

At 2:06 PM -0400 7/5/00, Robert King wrote:
>I think it's at the very end of Claw, in the scene where Jolenta dies.
>
>As I recall, it goes something like: "In the end there is only love, only
>that divinity. That we are capable of being only what we are remains our
>unforgivable sin."
>
>Believe it or not, I used the line when I had to give my speech as the
>valedictorian in high school. I figured Severian was a cooler reference
>than Polonius ("to thine own self be true," yadda yadda yadda). Damned if
>I can remember what context I placed it in, though.
>
>-- Bob
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Alex David Groce wrote:
>
>>  Ok, I'm trying to find where in New Sun Severian says something roughly
>>  like "Our one unforgivable sin is that we remain capable only of being
>  > what we are."  I can't find it anywhere, and I'm not sure I have the
>>  phrasing correct.  Anyone remember this?

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