(urth) Lupiverse(s) was Re: The Wizard

[Jeff Wilson]

On 3/12/2012 2:15 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> There are comments like the few extant builings surviving so many centuries of futurity in the afterwords that at least indicate the fictional GW did not know if was from the past, if indeed the manuscript WAS supposed to be from the past, and let us know the frame translator thinks he is dealing with something from the future.  I always felt that previous iteration was something of a retcon due to the nature of the deluge in light of the Covenant, but I am not above saying that maybe Gene planned it as a possible previous iteration all along.
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> We really can't get to the bottom of that one - I do think that there are echoes of Christ everywhere in New Sun, from the myths of the conciliator to Sev reenacting the temptation in the desert, almost as if even if you didn't ever hear of Him His story is still living.  HOWEVER, Sev going back and actually living the life of the conciliator kind of shoots some holes in that, so I think it is ultimately ... ambiguous.  Say it ain't so!

ambiguity, the devil's volleyball

I'm somewhat guilty of this myself. I run fantasy roleplaying games, and 
after a while it becomes second nature to couch prophecies and oracles 
figurative language and to use unreliable characters as mouth pieces so 
that when a player figures out a consistent explanation, I can run with 
it as if I had totally planned it that way all along.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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