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Alex David Groce05 Jul 2000, 10:29original as archived

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Ok, I'm trying to find where in New Sun Severian says something roughly like "Our one unforgivable sin is that we remain capable only of being what we are." I can't find it anywhere, and I'm not sure I have the phrasing correct. Anyone remember this?

"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

Robert King05 Jul 2000, 14:06original as archived

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I think it's at the very end of Claw, in the scene where Jolenta dies. As I recall, it goes something like: "In the end there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable of being only what we are remains our unforgivable sin." Believe it or not, I used the line when I had to give my speech as the valedictorian in high school. I figured Severian was a cooler reference than Polonius ("to thine own self be true," yadda yadda yadda). Damned if I can remember what context I placed it in, though. -- Bob

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Alex David Groce wrote: Ok, I'm trying to find where in New Sun Severian says something roughly like "Our one unforgivable sin is that we remain capable only of being what we are." I can't find it anywhere, and I'm not sure I have the phrasing correct. Anyone remember this? -- "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