Good find.<div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Andrew Mason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.mason53@googlemail.com">andrew.mason53@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I mentioned a while ago the way in which, in Long Sun/Short Sun, the<br>
lesser gods can sometimes become manifestations of the true God,<br>
culminating in the Rajan's statement near the end that 'insofar as<br>
they are gods at all they are him'. I've realised that there is<br>
something similar in _New Sun_, in the Oannes passage (SOTL 31), 'I<br>
did not believe in Oannes or fear him. But I knew, I thought, whence<br>
he came - I knew that there is an all-pervasive power in the universe<br>
of which every other is the shadow. I knew that my conception of that<br>
power was as laughable (and as serious) as Oannes.' The power is<br>
identified as the Increate at the end of the chapter.<br>
<br>
Later, in _Urth_, Severian says that he has become the Oannes of his<br>
people. Might this be a clue to what Wolfe means by saying that<br>
Severian is a form of the Outsider?<br>
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