(urth) Shadow, Chapter X

[Jeff Wilson]

Son of Witz wrote:
> I don't think we're in disagreement here. I was unaware about the
> Hellenic vies, but my point was that, unless you look at this with
> the eye that everything was adjusted and manipulated by higher
> powers, it just seems like he stumbles into exactly where he needs to
> be.  Lacking that justification, it would be very unbelievable.  I
> wouldn't fault anyone who read BoTNS (without Urth) for thinking
> that, because it wasn't until Urth that I saw the backwards timeline
> and began to grasp the depth of the manipulation of Severian's life.

But my opinion is that there is a still higher level of manipulation of 
the manipulators by the Increate, who in some way is or is in sympathy 
with Severian, perhaps in some Teilhard de Chardin-esque way.

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