Blue as Ushas

Chris · 17 Nov 2002, 11:30 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Chris" <rasputin_ at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Blue as Ushas
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:30:24 +0000
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Thanks for the welcome, Roy

I agree with your point here, though perhaps for different reasons. The=20
religious aspects are open to a very wide amount of interpretation, and=20
whether you believe Blue is Ushas or not you can choose to take it=20
negatively and nothing stops you.

I look at the question like this: asking if Blue is Ushas is somewhat akin=20
to asking if Ushas is Urth. Perhaps, in a sense, they are? But in the most=20
important sense they're different, and have different meanings, which go=20
along with the different names. This, to me, is far more important than the=20
argument over the means of how Blue might be Ushas. In this sense I feel=20
you're dead on in bringing the "higher" level into it.

To Don: Thank you for your welcome as well.

Unfortunately I think your red star is another red herring. Silk did see=20
this star at least once, in the enlightenment given him by the Outsider,=20
along with a lot of other knowledge of history, etc. One can easily argue=20
that Silk's enlightenment is false or partially mistaken (certainly Crane=20
would agree). But to attack that is to attack a lot of other things, some o=
f=20
which are integral to all of our understanding of the novels.

CP

>Let us posit--strictly for the sake of argument--that Blue is Ushas. How
>does that affect the overall picture Wolfe has drawn in the 12 SUN books?
>That is, is it consonant with the religious underpinnings Wolfe has given
>the extended series?

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