<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><BR>One more point, all this talk of an "unknown" christ in Severian's Universe just seems wrong, wrong, very wrong. Even though Severian was later conflated with the Conciliator, those early descriptions of the Conciliator are so Christlike as to be absurd, and the jungle hut with those missionaries seems like, you know, such an obvious reference not to a Conciliator but to a Christian missionary system, in our universe.</DIV>
<DIV>Marc</DIV></td></tr></table><br>