Severian even says something much like this, doesn't he? Each of us is paraclete to one, fiend to another? Something like that.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:20 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Severian (and Silk) are human beings. They each have a single, human,<br>nature. Christ is unique, in Christianity in that He has a dual nature,<br>
being both human and God. He is the only being in the Christian World that<br>has such a dual nature. He can manifest through other beings, and this is<br>what is happening with Severian and Silk.<br><br>Now in India there is an identical concept, but it is a class of beings<br>
(the avataras) not one single once for all exemplar. Occasionally<br>manifesting an avatar is one of the ways that God interacts with His<br>creation.<br><br>This fact, that there are records of only one of these guys in the West<br>
but a number of them in India may just be because the Indian records are<br>older and more complete.<br><br><br><br><br>.<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>> The recent discussion of Silk (as translated by Horn) reminds me of a<br>> question I've always had about book 4 of the Long Sun. As preface to the<br>> question, I was intrigued by Wolfe's talking about Severian being an<br>
> aspect<br>> of the Outsider, but not a Christ as much as a Christian (Christ being a<br>> man<br>> not corrupted.) Was Silk currupted by Typhon?<br>><br>> One thing that's always bothered me is in the trip to Mainframe, Horn's<br>
> retelling of Silk seems to grow more and more distant until at the end of<br>> the book I'm not really sure what Silk is thinking from the narrative.<br>> Specifically why does Silk nearly throw himself from the blimp? I've<br>
> always<br>> thought that at Mainframe Silk came to realize the presence of Typhon in<br>> him, and that makes him suicidal. Not to include a spoiler from the short<br>> sun series, but the trip to mainframe seems to be a turning point for Silk<br>
> which eventually leads him to being the hollowed out shell of the BotSS.<br>> Am<br>> I off base with this?<br>> -s<br></div></div>
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