(urth) Wind God

Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Thu Nov 4 22:29:36 PDT 2010


I like this. It adds to the idea that the Tomb Builder Severian (sounds like an action figure) is out meddling around beyond the text.

~Mike

On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Lee Berman wrote:
> 
> We are explicitly shown that Severian's modest
>> accomplishments as Concilliator (a few healings, a resurrection, maybe some geological
>> manipulation) are exaggerated into a society altering cult-figure.
> 
> I'm not sure of this. According to Dorcas's account of the Conciliator
> he used to disappear and reappear, suggesting that Severian's trip to
> Typhon's time is not the sole source of the legend. This may mean
> either that there have been other, as yet unrecounted, appearances of
> Severian, or that the Conciliator is a composite figure made up of
> various people, of whom Jesus is, perhaps, the first, and Severian the
> last.
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