(urth) Questions about BNS

[Jeff Wilson]

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> Adam Thornton wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Eric Ortlund wrote:
>>> 2) When Severian and Agia are in the Jungle Garden, the apparently 
>>> travel in time and space (the story about Father Inire's mirrors 
>>> apparently prepares the reader for this) to a missionary couple in the 
>>> jungle.  Can someone please explain to me what on earth the native is 
>>> talking about on pg. 131?  The woman in the couple reads from 
>>> Deuteronomy 34 - about Moses looking into the promised land but not 
>>> being able to enter it
>>>
>> This would be Severian and the Urth of the New Sun, is my reading.  In 
>> addition to being a Christ figure he's a Mosaic figure--he brings his 
>> world to salvation but does not himself get to enter the New World.
> 
> Doesn't he? If the people who worship The Sleeper aren't on Briah, where 
> are they?

sorry, I meant "on Ushas".



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