Nix X

Alice Turner · 19 Jun 1997, 09:35 · from whorl-v0006.mbox · original

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From: "Alice Turner" <al at interport.net>
Subject: (whorl) Nix X
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:35:02
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

I want to object to a creeping assumption in the last few posts, that
Severian is Christian. Wolfe may be [is] Christian, it's possible that the
Short Sun books may move in a Christian direction, like a good deal of the
Cordwainer Smith or C.S. Lewis work, and Severian himself may be "a form of
the Outsider," but that doesn't make him a Christian as I understand it. An
avatar of Christ, maybe, which is a little different.

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