(urth) Silk corrupted?

[John Watkins]

Severian even says something much like this, doesn't he?  Each of us is
paraclete to one, fiend to another?  Something like that.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:20 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> Severian (and Silk) are human beings. They each have a single, human,
> nature. Christ is unique, in Christianity in that He has a dual nature,
> being both human and God. He is the only being in the Christian World that
> has such a dual nature. He can manifest through other beings, and this is
> what is happening with Severian and Silk.
>
> Now in India there is an identical concept, but it is a class of beings
> (the avataras) not one single once for all exemplar. Occasionally
> manifesting an avatar is one of the ways that God interacts with His
> creation.
>
> This fact, that there are records of only one of these guys in the West
> but a number of them in India may just be because the Indian records are
> older and more complete.
>
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>
> > The recent discussion of Silk (as translated by Horn) reminds me of a
> > question I've always had about book 4 of the Long Sun. As preface to the
> > question, I was intrigued by Wolfe's talking about Severian being an
> > aspect
> > of the Outsider, but not a Christ as much as a Christian (Christ being a
> > man
> > not corrupted.) Was Silk currupted by Typhon?
> >
> > One thing that's always bothered me is in the trip to Mainframe, Horn's
> > retelling of Silk seems to grow more and more distant until at the end of
> > the book I'm not really sure what Silk is thinking from the narrative.
> > Specifically why does Silk nearly throw himself from the blimp? I've
> > always
> > thought that at Mainframe Silk came to realize the presence of Typhon in
> > him, and that makes him suicidal. Not to include a spoiler from the short
> > sun series, but the trip to mainframe seems to be a turning point for
> Silk
> > which eventually leads him to being the hollowed out shell of the BotSS.
> > Am
> > I off base with this?
> > -s
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