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[David Stockhoff]

It may help to think of Sev as the kind of Christ who might appear to 
save the people of a really, really, bad, dark universe utterly cut off 
from its creator.

On 10/14/2011 3:25 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> I will look for them; I don't see enough to consider Severian to be a 
> parallel of Christ without really bending the definition / nature of 
> Christ.  I guess this will eventually turn into a theological dispute 
> as to the nature of the biblical Christ!
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:21 PM, David Stockhoff 
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     Yes. That's why Severian is not Christ.
>
>     You'll find a fuller discussion (several of them) in the archives.
>
>
>     On 10/14/2011 3:15 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
>
>         Christ was not flawed, divine, aware of his mission, his role,
>         and quite cognizant of his powers ... these seem like the
>         opposite of Severian?
>
>         On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:11 PM, David Stockhoff
>         <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>         <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net
>         <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>>> wrote:
>
>            Bingo. That's why he's a Christ figure.
>
>
>            On 10/14/2011 3:09 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
>
>                Rather, Severian seems a sort of perversion of what we
>                consider Christ-like and heroic; Severian is decidedly
>         flawed,
>                mundane, and unaware of himself in time, his role, and his
>                powers for the majority of the story.
>
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