_Urth of the New Sun_ query

Mark Andersen · 26 Jul 1995, 10:20 · from sf-lovers.1995.mbox

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From: manderse at nmsu.edu (Mark Andersen)
Subject: Re: _Urth of the New Sun_ query
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:20:29 UNDEFINED
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eaobrien at ebi.ac.uk (Emmet O'Brien) writes:
>I was recently rereading Wolfe's _Urth of the New Sun_, and for some
>reason the names he uses for the higher and lower universes in the story,
>Yesod and Briah, seem familiar. My first thought was that they sounded
>vaguely Cabbalistic.

So I've been told. He also apparently has the names inverted for some
reason of his own. (i.e., higher universe: lower name and vice versa). 

Dr. Mark Andersen
Department of Fishery and Wildlife Sciences
New Mexico State University

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