(urth) travelling north

[James Wynn]

On 6/3/2010 2:56 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 6/3/2010 2:54 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:49 PM, James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Wolfe has said that
>>> Severian is a "Christ-figure".
>> Actually, Wolfe has specifically _denied_ that any of his heroes are
>> Christ-figures, and prefers the term "Christian figure."
> Well, even more so then.
On the other hand, the intended parallels do pile up. To once again 
quote Castle of the Otter/Castle of Days:
"Many of us have read so often that he was a "humble carpenter"...The 
man who built the built the cross was as much a carpenter too...The only 
object we are specifically told he made was not a table or a chair, but 
a whip...Christ knew not only the pain of torture but the pain of being 
a torturer..."