{False Christs; True Christ [continued (8)]}[16th March 1988]

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It is important for me and for anyone else who reads my fictions to remember that they are fictions: imaginative clothing dresses the Archetypal qualities, even though the act of dressing may be unconscious. Their appearances, their words, even their apparent qualities are filtered through my imperfections. This is (I guess) why +C, who[,] after all[,] changes appreciably during and between the fictions, is not identical to Jesus Christ of the Gospels, or to Jesus of Revelations, or to the Son, the Messiah, in Paradise Lost – and yet may still be modelled on, and a fictional representation of, the Archetype Christ. Within the limits of his* fictions, I should guess, he is an incarnation for his times.

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