(urth) fully divine and fully human
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Wed Nov 26 08:20:37 PST 2008
brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> Severian is
>> both a fraud and a conciliator, and this is something that I can find only
>> in Wolfe. A false Christ can still get the job done by pretending to be
>> what he wants the people to believe he is.
>
> Roger Zelazny did a similar thing, most excellently, with The Buddha in
> "Lord Of Light".
There's also a 1992 Steve Martin movie _Leap of Faith_ where a fake
faith healer conman becomes so persuasive that when he leads the marks
in prayer, unplanned non-fake miracles begin to occur.
--
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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