(urth) fully divine and fully human

[John Watkins]

Also "The King of Comedy," the DeNiro movie in which a deluded stalker
takes a hostage to live out his fantasy of becoming a stand-up
comedian.  To the audience's surprise, he's actually pretty funny, and
gets a book deal along with his time in jail.

And of course, one of the classic readings of Don Quixote is that the
Don really does become a man of singular courage and chivalry through
his madness.

On 11/26/08, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
> 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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