<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:43 AM, António Marques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:entonio@gmail.com" target="_blank">entonio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Or with God's promise that the Earth would not again be flooded: on the one hand, Wolfe chose flooding when he could have chosen anything else, so backtracking on it makes no sense. On the other hand, there are times when God does seem to have broken promises.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, God never promises that the Earth will not again be flooded - only that He will not do it. And, in New Sun, God does not do it; the Yesodis and Severian do.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>My view is that Severian's universe is not unlike ours, but with slightly different Jews and Christ was never born there. The issue tackled is, how did such a universe end up, and how can it be saved, in a soteriological sense? And each Book of the X Sun gives an answer.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I like this. </div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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