(urth) Serpents and Undines

[David Stockhoff]

I'd think the main issue would be substituting yourself for the 
Increate, not for the Autarch.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 7/30/2010 10:16 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>