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[David Stockhoff]

I thought you wanted to argue from the text. You're arguing from Gerry's 
gut now.

Christ is plainly NOT in the story. And this makes sense if we accept, 
as we have been told, that Urth is in a previous iteration, and Severian 
lives in the far future of that iteration (from our perspective).

Christ will come in a future iteration, and these are all signs of his 
coming, just as the light from Apollo's face presaged it in our own part 
of the cycle.

On 12/16/2010 2:05 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> Wolfe has himself called Severian "a Christian figure".  But it was 
> Jesus I said was in the story, which quite clearly *is* the case.  
> That is beside the point; it is always a leap to assume that absence 
> of evidence constitutes evidence of absence.
>
> But certainly, let us assess these ideas in terms of what the text says.
>
> - Gerry Quinn 


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