Blicero / christ myth

[Jeremy Osner]

rj wrote:

> It is not death -- murder, suicide, extinction, genocide etc -- but
> transcendence which Blicero seeks through and for Gottfried: "a promise,
> a prophecy, of Escape." (758.5up) It is his gift and his sacrifice. No
> more Satanic or sadistic than the Christian myth, really.

B-but, I don' hear anyone saying Pilate loved Christ... Or do you see Blicero as
corresponding to The Father? In which case, who's playing Pilate?

--
The right-hand, still untasted part of the novel, which,
during our delectable reading, we would lightly feel,
mechanically testing whether there were still plenty
left (and our fingers were always gladdened by the
placid, faithful thickness) has suddenly, for no reason
at all, become quite meager: a few minutes of quick
reading, already downhill, and -- O horrible!

Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
http://www.readin.com/books/invitationbeheading/