(urth) Serpents and Undines

[Jeff Wilson]

On 7/30/2010 10:16 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
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>> Jeff Wilson- I think it's a mistake to strongly link the Cumaean to the leech or
>> Ceryx on the basis of their resurrection fixation - essentially *everyone* and
>> *everything* in the BOTNS - including the title! - is connected to death and
>> resurrection in one way or another half-dozen. Personal resurrection, the
>> resurrection of habits and customs, of races, and of Urth herself.
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> Perhaps I should have been more clear. I perceive that the story presents two
> sorts of resurrection. One is pure and good and is associated with Pelerines and
> gems and white (or is it doppler blue?) light and angels and, perhaps, faith.

I get the sense that the author is trying to convey that the various 
"kinds of resurrection" are a mortal projection; there is only one 
source of the gift of life and that is the grace of the Increate. Then 
there are people who presume to decide that the Increate hasn't given 
them enough and will try to get more some other way, rather than living 
and sharing so that what they've been given *is* enough. This kind of 
substituion of one's judgment for that of the Increate is the first step 
on the dark path that eventually leads the likes of Typhon and Ceryx to 
airs of godhood, the way Vodalus presumes to substitute himself for the 
Autarch.

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