# light and displacement: Fr. Inire *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Mar 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### maa32 *25 Mar 2002, 19:18* All right, here is one more interesting thing I think that we should consider. In the chapter entitled Father Inire's mirrors in Shadow of the Torturer, the properties of light are discussed: "Since nothing can exceed the speed of light in our universe, the accelerated light leaves it and enters another. When it slows again, it re-enters ours - naturally at another placee" 129, Shadow and claw It goes on to say that this light will create something there if nothing was there to begin with. Could this reconcile in the Lupine universe how the red light from the old sun of Urth could be seen in the sky of Blue, where one of the big objections to them being the same place is that the light of the old sun can be seen on Blue? Remember that the mirrors also tend to have time bending properties. Also, I was just looking over the chapter when Agia and Severian enter the jungle in the botanic garden. There is a big tree with a liana on it, and Severian names the tree. What does the name mean? (I only have access to my book for a few seconds during the day to garner quotes; some guy has borrowed it from me and I see him for about thirty minutes once a day) and it is where that jungle hut shows up. It is odd that the hut made of vines seems to parallel the mating ceremonies of the inhumu. What is the name of that tree? It is in Latin, it starts with a C. I should have written it down. I'll have access to it tomorrow morning briefly to look it up. but it could be the big trees on lune. That would be neat. Marc ---