From: Jim Jordan <jbjordan@gnt.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) St. Paul & the Werwolf
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:23:18 

At 01:17 AM 7/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>This is Sean Whalen (prion).
>
>On another topic, has anyone noticed just how often Wolfe puts people
>eating other people in his stories?  It's in Fifth Head of Cerberus,
>Tracking Song, the Book of the New Sun, and probably others, too.  Is
>all this just related to the Eucharest?

	It is most definitely related to the Eucharist in the Severian Cycle,
generally in a "counterfeit" form. I can't recall it in 5th Head, but it
has been a while since I read it. I don't think it carries that freight in
Tracking Song, though.

Jim Jordan


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