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From: "Christopher Culver" <new_sun at hotmail.com>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n136
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:13:17 GMT
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Dan Rabin wrote:
>P.S.  Has it occurred to anyone else that Silk "sits as the right
>head of God"?  Couldn't resist--sorry.

Yeah, and that's what baffles me about Horn's religious notions: he still=20
thinks Pas is a god and can still be compared to the Outsider. One would=20
hope that the fact that Typhon was a madman will be made perfectly clear fo=
r=20
Horn in the next volume. In the meantime, he's blaspheming the Outsider=20
numerous times through his worship of an idol, but doesn't quite realize it.

Horn's performance of the Eucharist at the altar of the Neighbors must be=20
one of the finest scenes Wolfe has even written. "On Blue's Waters" lacked=20
the depth of Catholic symbolism that the BotLS had, but IGJ really brings i=
t=20
back. It was rather amuzing to see Horn telling Hide to call him "Father"=20
(as if a priest) right after he tells of the experience of the altar. It=20
also made me think that, in the religious context of the BotLS and BotSS,=20
Horn *is* a priest: he's the representative of the Son (Silk) on Earth=20
(well, Blue).

Christopher Culver <new_sun at hotmail.com>
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