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  "thread": {
    "id": 5687,
    "subject": "Severian and the corridor of time",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2010-08-04T15:03:36+00:00",
    "last": "2010-08-04T15:03:36+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<SNT123-W493DF35343C4B5E1D77E5BCFAF0@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lee Berman",
        "address": "severiansola at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-08-04T15:03:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Severian and the corridor of time",
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          "text": "David Stockhoff- Maybe he skidded past the exact point where the light reaches Urth, \nbecause he was going so fast."
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          "text": "Yeah, that is my impression of what happened also. A bit of temporal inertia.\n \nI guess Jason Walker is wondering why he had to stop at that point in history on Urth. \nIf he was outside space and time, why would access to an electromagnetic energy source\nhave any impact? I suppose we must guess that access to that power source is somehow \ntied to the timeframe and physical presence on Urth. There may be no way to plausibly\nexplain it with our knowledge of science.\n \nHowever, I think the best answer might be auctorial rather than scientific. If Severian was\nable to travel in unlimited fashion in time, he'd come out on a molten blob of planetary rock \nand be burnt up or destroyed in the Big Bang or something. That would be a crappy end to the \nstory and we can't have that. Best to make his time travel ability restricted only to \nplaces and times where human beings can and do exist.\n \nMakes me wonder about how long Severian was dead and buried in the stone temple before he\nresucitated and spoke to B, F and O. I think Apu Punchau was still a body, not a mummy or\nskeleton so I guess it couldn't have been very long. But if Apu Punchau was dead long enough\nto be reduced to dust would Severian still be resurrected when the New Sun winked into \nexistence and was close enough? I guess so...but again, Severian seeing  a pile of dust \nwouldn't have made as good a story, I think. \t\t \t   \t\t  "
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