(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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