(urth) Lupiverse(s)

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Andrew Mason 

Gerry Quinn wrote:
> From: Andrew Mason
>
> >> In any case, Wolfe fairly clearly rejects this view in the author's
> >> note to 'La Befana' - while the story itself does turn on the idea
> >> that Christ must be born anew on different planets, it's made clear
> >> that this is a joke. On the other hand, the way he puts it suggests
> >> that he _may_ actually think  the principle is true for universes.
> 
> > What does he say, exactly?  I read ?La Befana? online but it had no author?s 
> > intro.  [My thought was that the mistake of La Befana might be to be looking 
> > among the human colonists rather than among Zozz?s people.]

> It's in 'The Best of Gene Wolfe'. I don't have it word for word, but
> it goes something like this: 'This story is based on a playful
> theological speculation. If Jesus had to come into the world to save
> it it, what about other worlds? Does he have to come into them if he
> wants to save them? ('World' is here misinterpreted as 'planet' in
> order to get a story out of it.)'
Hmm... maybe it’s just that your paraphrase that doesn’t fully convey the sense you took from the original – but I don’t get the sense that a “playful theological speculation” is a joke in the sense of something that could never be true.
- Gerry Quinn
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