(urth) Long Sun Laughs

[John Watkins]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

> thanks again for that Dave.
>
> this one strikes me as odd:
> 12. Who was Blood's father? -- Patera Pike. [DRL: This was a complete
> surprise all round, by the way.]
> I thought that was pretty clear in the book, much more clear than Silk
> being an engineered embryo.
>
> but I'd like to point out #15 to all the people here who contest the idea
> that Severian is an instantiation of Christ.
>
> 15. Is the Outsider a form of Severian? -- No. Severian is a form of the
> Outsider.
>


As, by a certain logic, is everyone.



>
> ~witz
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Dave Tallman [mailto:davetallman at msn.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:36 AM
> >To: urth at lists.urth.net
> >Subject: Re: (urth) Long Sun Laughs
> >
> >Gene Wolfe answered several questions related to Quetzal's motivations in
> a
> >Q&A session recorded here: http://www.ansible.co.uk/cc/cc77.html/quetxal
> >
> >Check out answers 7, 23, and 24. He said that Quetzal wanted a "thriving
> >human colony on Green" (which almost seems like a contradiction in terms
> to
> >me).
> >
>
>
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