(urth) christ, already

[David Stockhoff]

On 12/15/2010 7:13 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> (By the way, somebody, David Stockhoff I think, suggested that the man 
> wouldn't have been "fortunate" if he'd been crucified later, but Silk 
> is the one who calls hims fortunate.  I think Silk might have thought 
> being enlightened or possessed outweighed being crucified, or even 
> that martyrdom was also good fortune.)



---Yes, that's how I took it. Surely Wolfe was being ironic, if Silk was 
not.

> David asked about the point of similar repeated universes.  One 
> possibility that's been mentioned here is that the author might want 
> to have a Flood without having God violate his promise to Noah.

---That would make sense in a universe in which that promise was made. 
I'm not saying it wasn't made in Briah, but I'm increasingly thinking that.


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