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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I am skeptical that something as vast as the RCC could ever "become" something as tiny and obscure as the Guild, but there are certainly correspondences and connections. The Guild could be a fragment of the Church, perhaps descended from some actual monastic order. But which one? They all seem pretty benevolent to me.<br>
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<div>Although Dan Simmons, in <em>Hyperion</em>, doesn't hesitate to posit a Catholic Church with only a few thousand members.</div>
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From: "O'Donnell, Tim (BOSI)" <<a href="mailto:Tim.O%27Donnell@bankofscotland.ie" target="_blank">Tim.O'Donnell@bankofscotland.ie</a>><br>Subject: c<br>To: <<a href="mailto:urth@urth.net" target="_blank">urth@urth.net</a>><br>
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<br><br>A couple of theories on the mystery of the guild from the archives:<br><br>1) That it has to do with Auturchs and the rearing of them<br><a href="http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0304/3112.txt.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0304/3112.txt.shtml</a><br>
<br><br>2) That the guild = Roman Catholic Church (I know Silk was described by Wolfe in interview as being in the broadest possible sense a member of the seekers after truth - and he is a priest)<br><a href="http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0015/0073.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0015/0073.shtml</a><br>
<br>I am inclined to believe the first one, that Ymar left the guild know that they would be very important at some point in the future.<br><br><br>************************************************************************************************<br>
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