Clones of the Long Sun

Lisa Schaffer-Doggett · 06 Sep 2003, 22:49 · from urth-v0309.mbox · original

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From: Lisa Schaffer-Doggett <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Clones of the Long Sun
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:49:18 -0700
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On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 03:31 PM, James Jordan wrote:

> At 02:07 PM 9/6/2003, Crush wrote:
>> As I see it, the chief benefit of the Typhon Clone explanation=20
>> originally
>> put forward by Don is the number of narrative puzzles it answers, and=20
>> that
>> it explains many of Wolfe's literary choices.
>>
>> If you never wondered why Silk was invited to by the Mainframe=20
>> operators to
>> be scanned and merged with Pas....
>
>         I'm not anticlone, but my own guess when I read the books,=20
> which I'll offer for rebuttal, is that Silk is a son of Typhon. In=20
> Mainframe, Goodpas, Silk, and Kypris form a model of the Trinity, with=20
> Kypris as Love (and Love is the Holy Spirit in Augustinian theology).=20
> And it appears to me that Silk as a son of Pas would just as well=20
> account for the other things you listed, though perhaps not for=20
> everything that Don or someone else might point out:
>

Yes, but (according to orthodoxy)  the Father and the Son are the same.=20
  As I pointed out, by making Silk a clone of Typhon he is both Typhon=20
(genetically) and his son ("born" through the action of the original). =20
And Pas is the (un)holy spirit - also the same.

Don


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