(urth) Abaia and the undines

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>>> I seem to recall that in an interview with James Jordan, Wolfe balked
>>> giving any place to Severian a stand-in for Christ. He explicitly
>>> corrected Jordan by stating he was a "Christ-figure".

>> He is, according to Wolfe a manifestation of the Mystical Body of
>> Christ. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that he participates in the
>> Mystical Body of Christ.

>> In Catholicism, the communicant eats the flesh and drinks the blood of
>> Christ. Christ (or bits of Him) thus becomes part of the communicant.
>> The Christian does not and cannot become Christ: Christ is the Unique
>> Incarnation. Christ becomes part of the Christian.

> So you're saying he's a Christian, not a Christ.

That is indeed what I am saying.

And I feel that I am on safe ground here, as Gene Wolfe has said the same
thing on more than one occasion.



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