Digest urth.v030.n114

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 17 May 2001, 15:54 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: (urth) RE: Digest urth.v030.n114
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:54:22
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Mantis wrote:

> Jane Doe as Lilith is a very strong thread, agreed.

Don't like it, but have to agree. (Side note -- Lilith is often
identified with the Greek snake-women, lamiae, which adds flavor
to this.)

> Okay.  So the NP beams a copperhead and Jane Doe rises up.

Right.

> Realistically it doesn't make any sense

Realistically, _none_ of this makes sense...

> Meanwhile, there is the repeated trouble in Spokane. That and
> the question of "how long to the next election," these are the
> points that sound like "National Crisis" to me. =20

I can't help thinking you're seeing what you want to see there --
indications of crisis are ambiguous at best; I suspect that, if
there's a crisis going on, it's only a crisis for the NP, not=20
for the whole country.

I certainly think you're reading-into the conversation with the
security guy.

And Roy wrote:

> Do we get a replay of the Eden story, the same way we got a
> Second Flood in the Urth Cycle? Does that make sense, from a
> Christian point of view?

I think a good analogy here is to the Narnia books -- it isn't
a "replay," but, if God made multiple worlds, how things might
play themselves out, differently but according to the old=20
patterns, in those worlds. Like those, I don't think Wolfe
writes to be taken allegorically, but perhaps symbolically.

--Blattid

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