(urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3

[Jeff Wilson]

b sharp wrote:
> 
> Thalassocrat writes: 
>> I think "the Temptation" has to refer to something like it would in 
>> our world, which is certainly the Temptation of Eve. In Sev's 
>> world, the Temptation of Meschiane. At least on the basis of Dr 
>> Talos' play, you can have this story without Christianity. 
> 
> I must agree that in this situation the play's the thing! But if I remember
> Eschatology and Genesis correctly, the temptation is for Meschia, to which
> he succumbed with Jahi in the first creation and to which he probably will 
> not succumb with the Contessa in the impending creation. Either way, the 
> story would appear in Urth's legends thanks to Canog and a visual depiction
> would make an appropriate decoration for a brothel. Better than a 
> Severian-Typhon image, anyway.

A scene depicting a tall, dark stranger with a dashing cape and sword in 
parley with a naked body builder might not be out of place if the 
brothel caters to minority tastes.

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