From: John Bishop <jbishop@ch.hp.com>
Subject: (urth) re wound in side [Digest urth.v003.n012]
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:44:59 


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]


 Prometheus is the other classic "wound in side"
 reference; he can be seen as a prefiguration of
 Christ, in that he sacrifices himself for the
 benfit of mankind.

 Prometheus is non-human (he is a Titan), and the
 benfit is physical and ambigious, rather than
 spiritual and unmixed, so there are differences.
 Not having read the story at issue, I can't guess
 which makes more sense.

       -John