Posted from 2 addresses as Jeff Wilson, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com, Jeffery Wilson
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The same, but perhaps he is better received. The mathematical term for this would be Briah(aleph). But there can still be Briah(aleph+1). I must second Adam Thornton's recommend…
14 Aug 2010, 02:08
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Who presumes?…
13 Aug 2010, 23:22
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That's begging the question, in the original sense. Somehow intelligence had arise for the first time in the universe, unless you have a steady state universe where intelligence …
13 Aug 2010, 22:40
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If they were the same coin within a span of each other, wouldn't they implode? I don't think Sev has both coins at once. He recovers Vodalus' coin shortly after his return to t…
13 Aug 2010, 20:50
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Why would that be necessary when the Hieros sprang from Briah?…
13 Aug 2010, 20:33
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The problem is that my idea is that any planets or stars in Yesod are fakes, only constructs that simulate the appearance and useful features of the authentic ones in Briah, for …
13 Aug 2010, 20:31
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If this is correct, what prevents the Yesodis from directly accessing their original, immediate makers' iteration and having another go at Ascension?…
13 Aug 2010, 17:07
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I think Yesod *can be* cyclic. If it is a morally neutral and normally empty hyperspace that is given a spiritual character by the Hierarchy that dwells there now, when they move…
13 Aug 2010, 16:59
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I think this assertion has weak empirical and logical support. Humans make poor choices even when they have reasonable knowledge of the consequences, and there's no treatment of …
13 Aug 2010, 04:59
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Quote trimming good, quote elimination bad. Again, there are many years of archives. Can you at least grant us a date, if not an actual URL?…
13 Aug 2010, 04:49
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This is how I read it.…
13 Aug 2010, 01:01
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Doesn't he usually work both in? Severian is the Conciliator, and Apu Punchau. But there's another Apu Punchau, and there were other Severians who weren't either one. Marsch is an …
13 Aug 2010, 00:17
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Textev, please? Depends on the physical laws there. Stephen Baxter's RAFT explores a space-time where the force of gravity is much stronger, resulting in "stars" on the scale of a…
12 Aug 2010, 22:05
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Welcome to the Urth list! Could we have some context with your post?…
12 Aug 2010, 20:11
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If aquastor Malrubius' knowledge doesn't agree with Tzadkiel's, where does it come from?…
12 Aug 2010, 05:28
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IIRC, yes, but it could be multiple reports of one or two occasions.…
12 Aug 2010, 01:55
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That suits me, and I agree that he was not thinking sbout it at the time. But since only a couple of years later the "Urth is a previous cycle" became his steady line, I think he…
11 Aug 2010, 18:14
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The Autarch as Bene Gesserit?…
11 Aug 2010, 18:10
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All creatures serve the plan of the Increate, and Severian as the New Sun does so consciously and intentionally, using supernatural gifts that flow from the Increate. The respons…
11 Aug 2010, 17:49
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That's the one machine-planet in Yesod that oversees the galaxies of Briah. There are supposed to be other stars and planets somewhere in Yesod. Have they been caught flat-out ly…
11 Aug 2010, 17:31
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URTH LI: "All about me stretched the Corridors of Time, waving meadows roofed with the lowering sky of Time and whisperous with the brooks that ripple from the most supernal univ…
11 Aug 2010, 17:28
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These are good points, I think that's how the BOTNS was written originally, but the flood would break the covenant with Noah, so URTH's record of the flood coming to pass necessi…
11 Aug 2010, 17:12
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Technically, that is inductive rather than deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning would require at least part of thee tower to be visible midway between the past and the future…
11 Aug 2010, 17:03
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Yesod is above the cycles of Briah the way the Corridors of Time are above the roads of the Commonwealth. Expansion/inflation of space makes Briah it's own neighbor in finite but…
11 Aug 2010, 07:48
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That's a wormhole that the Yesodis use to come from and go to Briah. The one he leaves through appears the same way, only as a bright moon against the starry firmament of Briah, …
11 Aug 2010, 07:25
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They only have to be narratively parallel, not literally. Later on Severian refers to leaving Yesod as leaving eternity, and I believe that he means it in the strict sense of a c…
11 Aug 2010, 07:20
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I notice that in that scene (CLAW XXI) Thecla's imprint only belatedly recognizes the Autarch herself, after several minutes of conversation even after getting a direct face-to-f…
11 Aug 2010, 07:03
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In current and time-of-writing astronomical thought, there is no accessible edge of the universe, but that doesn't prevent Severian's untechnical general education from leading h…
11 Aug 2010, 05:43
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If the saint names are an artifact of translation, so is Tzadkiel and Lee's confirmation dissolves.…
10 Aug 2010, 21:25
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What explains all the dozens of identical saints' names in Briah then? Because that's exactly what Severian describes? The Ship flies to the extremely distant reaches of Briah, …
10 Aug 2010, 20:58
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they would not be in one place ahead or behind the ship, but all encompassing as the fabric of space also collapses/expands.…
10 Aug 2010, 15:35
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Being at the exact location given, and in the flyer helps. Severian's too young to have been a long-term informant, so the other guy must be him. And perhaps the Autarch has a v…
10 Aug 2010, 15:33
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Severian sees that Vodalus' and Dr Talos' counterfeit coins are struck from the same die, implying that he's seen variations among other coins and that dies are not accurately re…
10 Aug 2010, 14:00
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In both real and fictional espionage, it's not unusual for turncoats to remain unmet by the other side's leader, especially if he is not his own spymaster. Even if they meet some…
10 Aug 2010, 09:35
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This can be the physical or spatial end, like the end of the street. Like Frye says, "I spent hours trying to deliver this package to Dogg-do seven; the universe ends after Dogg-…
10 Aug 2010, 01:41
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I mean, what is the point of resurrecting Sev as an eidolon so that he could return to the future? There's no danger of the corpse going anywhere.…
09 Aug 2010, 22:30
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Was there a point in resurrecting him in the first place? Indeed. And even if they are of the same stock, they may have their own imperfect forms of artificial longevity, so tha…
09 Aug 2010, 08:45
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Gunnie (the elder) had some of Agia's gumption as well, even if she let herself be turned about morally as thoroughly as she was temporally. There may be some kind of temporal gr…
09 Aug 2010, 07:28
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There's a sister somewhere, but that doesn't mean the clues to her identity have to be where Severian can find them, just where the *reader* can find them. He was probably being…
09 Aug 2010, 01:24
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This might be extended indefinitely upward to the Increate's plan.…
08 Aug 2010, 13:38
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That's.....quite a presumption. Textev?…
08 Aug 2010, 05:41
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Let us think what information that the guild would have retained. We could expect them to have: * the official documentation commanding Catharine's imprisonment and her torture …
07 Aug 2010, 11:18
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Tzadkiel overtly changes shape, and the armigette becomes a bird in one of the lazarette stories. Can you refresh my memory about where else shapeshifting is referenced? And do …
07 Aug 2010, 11:15
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That's not much of a restriction given Severian's gift of rationalization. Of course Severian is mostly obedient to the written and unwritten rules of his society, but is also ke…
06 Aug 2010, 20:00
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I think the fulgurator uses electronic technology to determine if the client is speaking truthfully. They probably monitor and discretely relay the level of verity to the examine…
06 Aug 2010, 05:35
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Alpheta, Tzadkiel, Famulimus, Barbatus, and Inire are all alien creatures from beyond time and space whose existence follows physical laws foreign to all urthly experience. They …
06 Aug 2010, 05:06
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We already know that the torturers supply medical attention to clients, so that would not be a separate specialty. There is also an association of electrical gear with lightning …
06 Aug 2010, 04:50
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Dude, are we reading the same books? Sev says multiple times he's broken every oath he's ever made, every guild stricture, ...he breaks rules left and right, starting with treaso…
06 Aug 2010, 04:08
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I believe he does open the records, which is how he knows his mother's name and hair color, which Ouen confirms, and that he does it almost immediately upon his ascension, before…
06 Aug 2010, 03:45
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My guess would be that the examiner is the crown's representative, the way medical examiners / coroners determine the cause of death, and that a fulgurator who uses "lightning" f…
06 Aug 2010, 03:36
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