(urth) the voice of the outsider is the conjunction of pas/kypris

[James Wynn]

> Marc Aramini-
> The sun books overarching, unifying trope beyond even salvation is 
> that imitation begets truth.  Severian says time turns our lies into 
> truth, and the process of creating a closed universe of the whorl with 
> himself as a god within it made something much more noble out of 
> Typhon (ie - the immortal computerized intellect of Pas is morally 
> more respectable than Typhon even though it is the culmination of 
> Typhon's attempts to become a God, the height of his hubris.) 

Marc hasn't received any push-back on his "Pas/Kypris=Outsider" theory 
so I figure I'll provide some.

The fundamental characteristic of the Outsider from Silk's POV is that 
He is OUTSIDE the Whorl as opposed to the other gods of the Whorl who 
(as Silk is well aware at the beginning of Nightside) are ONLY in the 
Whorl. Silk knows that the gods of the Whorl were not worshiped in Urth. 
He knows the Outsider /was/. Horn knows that the gods of the Whorl did 
transport to Blue in any normal sense.

So, the fundamental problem with this theory, as I see it, is that it 
casually flicks to the gutter the most fundamental attributes of the 
Outsider. By this theory, Silk's Outsider is NOT a god outside of the 
Whorl. Instead he is ACTUALLY and existentially _only_ an INSIDER. This 
seems to be a serious betrayal of everything going on in the books.

Now there is an alternate theory, as I see it, in which the Outsider 
MIGHT be other than the Increate. But, I have serious problems with that 
one as well. But I'm willing to discuss it after we addressed some of 
the problems with /your/ theory.

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