(urth) Urth & Earth (was "Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe")

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Fri Jun 4 12:52:38 PDT 2010


Antichrist and demiurge are such totally different things, though.

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>> Because Wolfe is also playing with the notions of an anti-Christ or
>> demiurge.  Falsity and pretence to authority are pretty key parts of
>> those notions.
>
> Well, it works for that too.
> Like I said, one could argue that the religion on which the Chapter is
> based is not the Catholic Church, but I think that is quite cumbersome
> and distracts from the parallels and themes that (I think) Wolfe is
> intentionally toying with. It's unsatisfying to me.
>
>> (And frankly Pas is a lot more demiurge than anti-Christ.)
>
> I could not agree more than I am agreeing at this very moment. See my
> conversation with David Stockhoff.
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