(urth) Silk corrupted?

[John Watkins]

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On 1/22/09, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> The idea that people (or some people) are in some way related to stars is
> very, very old.
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> It appears in Judaism, Hinduism and various American Indian religions.
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>> violence?
>> that may be overstepping.  any great work is larger than it's author's
>> intention.  But I'm sympathetic with your feeling, despite having to poke
>> at it a bit.
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>> What I don't understand, all Christ arguments aside, is "How does a star
>> have the consciousness of Severian? How does a star resurrect humans? How
>> does a star steer time?
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>> just asking.
>> ~witz
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes [mailto:danldo at gmail.com]
>>>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 02:46 PM
>>>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>>>Subject: Re: (urth) Silk corrupted?
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>>>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I concede, of course, that the Bible takes precedence as a literary
>>>> work in
>>>> both stature and history, so Severian and Jesus can never really be
>>>> coequals. But please let's dispense with the notion---the
>>>> assumption---that
>>>> there can only be a single Christ in all of human literature. It's an
>>>> indefensible position.
>>>
>>>Agreed. Writers are free to create as many Christs as they choose, and
>>>to make them theoanthropoi, divine, etc.
>>>
>>>What is key here is that we are interpreting a work by a writer who
>>>takes the position that Jesus was a unique historical figure, the sole
>>>Theoanthropos and Redeemer, an event which will not and *can* not
>>>be repeated. This is *Wolfe's* position, and to interpret his work in
>>>a way that violates this position is to do that work a violence which
>>>I cannot condone.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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>>>http://www.danehyoakes.com
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