Baptising the Little Gods

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 19 Apr 2002, 23:22 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Re: Baptising the Little Gods
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:22:28 -0700
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hartshorn wrote:

> Yes.   But don't be defensive.    I am not atttacking.

Sorry. On another list I'm dealing with a serious anti-Catholic
who seems to think that Jack Chick tracts are Revealed Truth. A
bit of the defensiveness seems to have slipped across to here.

> What is Wolfe saying?   Does not Wolfe's fiction accept and
> transform the "little gods" - and perhaps accept that as the
> universe ages its greater children will be more and more tempted
> to this status, and need this redemption?

Yeah. And one of the things I've been thinking, but need to=20
reread it first, is that one-of-the-many-things-Long-Sun-is,
is a story of the redemption of Typhon/Pas. Or maybe not...

> You may find this a threat, but does Wolfe, who is so wise?

I suspect he'd get very upset if you called him wise. 8*)

> God might work this way.  **really**.   In the objective, primary, world.

Might, heck. If God can make use of scum like me and, doubtless,
Gene Wolfe, he can make use of somebody like Typhon. (Or, as Eru
says to Melkor, "this, too, shall result in the greater glory of
my work." Or something like that. I hate having a lousy memory=20
for quotations...)

--Blattid

--=20

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