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Sev: Satisfactory Conciliator?

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Nicholas Gevers23 Nov 1999, 20:35original as archived

With regard to the question of how satisfactory Sev's career in the Age of the Monarch is as the basis for the legend of the Conciliator: one mustn't forget Canog's role as propagandist. His BOTNS, based on Sev's account of the future given in prison, might be a very skilful work of prophetic literature--as persuasive as the Gospels have been, perhaps. By this means, a few random miracles could acquire great resonance--a comment by Wolfe on the power of the written word, which records, and supersedes by outlasting, mere actions.

Jim Jordan24 Nov 1999, 00:45original as archived

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At 08:35 PM 11/23/99 -0800, you wrote: With regard to the question of how satisfactory Sev's career in the Age of the Monarch is as the basis for the legend of the Conciliator: one mustn't forget Canog's role as propagandist. His BOTNS, based on Sev's account of the future given in prison, might be a very skilful work of prophetic literature--as persuasive as the Gospels have been, perhaps. By this means, a few random miracles could acquire great resonance--a comment by Wolfe on the power of the written word, which records, and supersedes by outlasting, mere actions.

Good thought. Probably more analogous to the prophets, however, than to the gospels. Nutria

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