# Urth Digest, Vol 73, Issue 34 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 Sep 2010* > 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. --- ### Andrew Mason *19 Sep 2010, 22:38* > Jeff Wilson wrote: > On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote: >> At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he >> finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald >> bench'. “Does anyone have any idea what this might be” > Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon > which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula > for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and > mandragoras, etc. > > ? ? ? ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun. --- ### Jeff Wilson *20 Sep 2010, 06:27 · in reply to Andrew Mason* > On 9/19/2010 5:38 PM, Andrew Mason wrote: > Jeff Wilson wrote: >> On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote: >>> At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he >>> finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald >>> bench'. Does anyone have any idea what this might be? >> Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon >> which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula >> for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and >> mandragoras, etc. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet > Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun. The sun references are intriguing, implying yet another time-loop, or perhaps that an autarch of the distant pre-Typhonian succession somehow knew something of what was to come. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL > ``` ---