(urth) Resurrections
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Aug 1 10:40:41 PDT 2010
Ah, very good.
Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 7/31/2010 1:27 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> What's the reference to Joseph's dream?
>
> In URTH XXXVIII, while Severian is also a seer imprisoned by the
> authorities, there is a literal biblical reference to it, immediately
> followed by a dream with Revelations imagery, or maybe Peter's:
>
> "In those moments I knew my power, that could draw whole worlds to me
> and incremate them as an artist burns his earths for pigments. In the
> brown book, now lost, that I carried and read so long that at last I
> had committed to memory its whole contents (though they had once
> seemed inexhaustible) there is this passage: 'Behold, I have dreamed a
> dream more; the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to
> me.' Its words show plainly how much wiser the peoples of ages long
> past were than we are now; not for nothing is that book titled The
> Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky.
> "I too dreamed a dream. I dreamed that I called the power of my star
> down upon myself, and rising, crossed (Thecla as well as Severian) to
> our barred door, and grasping its bars, bent them until we could
> easily have passed between them. But when we bent them it seemed we
> parted a curtain, and beyond it beheld a second curtain and Tzadkiel,
> neither larger than ourselves nor smaller, with the dirk afire. "
>
>
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