From: Jim Jordan <jbjordan@gnt.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v029.n031
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:40:28 

At 11:53 AM 7/9/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>> From: Charles Dye <raster@highfiber.com>
> > Vodalus and Jolenta --
>> what's the connection?
>
>Both are artificial constructs (in different senses) propped up by other
>actors.  Both aspire to be something they are not.  Jolenta is discarded,
>Vodalus is discarded (presumably to be replaced by Agia).
>
>The sin of Vanity?
>
>    -- Dave Lebling
>        (aka vizcacha)

	Perhaps this also: We cannot change ourselves. The Increate must do it to
us. We must be acted upon by Him, which is what the New Sun and the Flood
are all about. Only He can deliver humanity from "Egyptian bondage,"
through His agents. We are doomed unless He acts. Vodalus thinks he can act
and do it, but he's wrong. 

Nutria


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