(urth) Wind god

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 04:03:51 PST 2010


James Wynn wrote (08-11-2010 06:04):
> On 11/6/2010 8:38 PM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
>> I think the possibilities are only 2:
>>
>> - Severian is Earth's future
>> - Severian is in the future of an alternate Earth
>>
>> I.e. even positing that Severian is a kind of Jesus, he can't be the
>> first Jesus in his planet, otherwise where do the echoes of
>> Christinanity that prrecede him come from? One might say the
>> Concilliator visited earlier times, but all the evidence we have shows
>> him closely associated to the end of Typhon's reign - or is there any
>> hint that his time there is seen as a second coming?
>
> Those are hardly the only two possibilities.
>
> Given that Time collapses with each cycle it is entirely irrelevant
> whether the cycles were "earlier" (in meta-Time) or not.

It's not irrelevant, it's devoid of meaning. Either way, I meant 'future', 
not 'meta-future'.

> For the memory
> to move backwards is no harder (or even different) than for it to move
> forward.
> As for where do the echoes of Christianity come from, in the post you
> replied to, I explained how that could easily work using a model Wolfe
> has constructed in another novel.

No, you hinted it could follow 'There Are Doors'. That's far from an 
explanation and I don't see how that's easy here.



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