(urth) Severian's skin color

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 15:31:47 PDT 2005


On 6/23/05, Chris <rasputin_ at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >If Silk is genetically
> >Horn's son, then the fact that the Rajan is simultaneously Silk, Horn, 
> >and Horn the Neighbor builds on the theme of rationalizing the Holy 
> >Trinity which Wolfe takes at many levels in The Short Sun.
> 
> This is the kind of thing I was talking about, and I do think there's a very
> big thematic problem here. You are suggesting that Wolfe is 
> "rationalizing" the Holy Trinity by deriving it from Typhon, who is on 
> several levels *the Demiurge*. Perhaps you can justify this, I don't 
> know, but any attempt to work this into the theme changes the 
> implications of the entire series from top to bottom - and, as far as I can 
> tell, not for the better. It seems like you'd be left with nothing but a sort
> of Gnostic pamphlet piece.

Ummm.

I think that the Trinity theme is there, with or without the cloning
aspect: but I think it isn't about "rationalizing" at all. I think that 
the Whorl, as a Gnostic parody of the true Creation, has its own
parody of the Trinity....

--Dan'l

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