Typhon, Sev, Silk

Chris · 13 Mar 2003, 06:20 · from urth-v0303.mbox · original

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From: "Chris" <rasputin_ at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon, Sev, Silk
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:20:37 +0000
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I tend to agree, though for not quite the same reasons.

Christ is essentially what you could call the complete package: the=20
successful integration of all of the messianic attributes into the ultimate=20
man. Severian doesn't seem on his way to Christ-consciousness, however.=20
Rather, he seems to exemplify given attributes and not others; he is the=20
right answer to the given circumstances/problems of the world at the time,=20
but not for all problems at all times. He is the virtuous destroyer who=20
clears away the old to create the new, but if you choose a different=20
spiritual "axis", if you will, Severian tends to be more or less neutral an=
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not especially inclined to become otherwise.

Chris

Matt said:
>I think you're off base here.  Wolfe is presenting Severian as a human=20
>being who is in the process of becoming more Christ-like (i.e. as a=20
>Christian).  Severian's arrest occurs near the beginning of his journey, i=
f=20
>I'm remembering correctly.  His actions at the arrest remind me more of St=
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>Peter at Gethsemane than of Christ.
>
>If Wolfe is indeed the Catholic he claims to be, regarding Christ as a wim=
p=20
>would pose something of a problem of faith.

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