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Alex David Groce · 17 Oct 1999, 10:51 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n035
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:51:03
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>Well, Ratty, you're wrong, I do agree. My very point was that Horn, exactly
>like Mathew (the most egregious of the gospeleers, IMO--and I will happily
>cite how), when he wasn't present at an event, made free to invent, but wi=
th
>the sincerity of love and the drive of evangelism, which is, I suppose, wh=
at
>Alex means by the Holy Spirit. That, however, doesn't quite make it fact.

Ah, but Rat & I would attribute to the Holy Spirit the result that Matthew
never actually _gets it wrong_--contradictions are only apparent, resulting
from reading things in the wrong sense.  How exactly this applies to things
like "who WAS the high priest at time X?" and such I forget at the moment a=
nd
is probably out of the list's scope, anyway.

Which is highly relevant to OBW/The Book of Silk if we (as I would assume we
all do) think Horn & Nettle writing are meant to be analogous to writing a
Gospel.  In other words, sure Horn wanted to get it right out of "love and =
the
drive of evangelism"--but if you take the model Wolfe's probably using, he
really DID get it right.  Which, as far as I know, just the desire doesn't
guarantee.  That's where we seem to differ.  Given Wolfe's penchant for=20
having "secular" things act suspiciously as if at the behest of the Outside=
r,
this strongly suggests Horn had help (from Mainframe or something) to=20
guarantee he got it right.  On the other hand, since in Long Sun the Outsid=
er
does directly Enlighten Silk it can't be ruled out that Horn really does ha=
ve
direct supernatural aid in writing the Book of Silk.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
--
Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department
8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce

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