_Urth of the New Sun_ query

Jon Evans · 26 Jul 1995, 19:43 · from sf-lovers.1995.mbox

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From: JEMEVANS at ELECTRICAL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (Jon Evans)
Subject: Re: _Urth of the New Sun_ query
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 19:43:10 GMT
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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, but I don't have research material to hand. Can
>anyone enlighten me ?

Yesod at least is indeed, uh, (ducking a surefire spelling error) what you
said.  My limited knowledge of the sefirah is from Umberto Eco's FOUCAULT'S
PENDULUM, which explains all ten of them; I suggest you read it a) because
it answers your question and b) because it is a work of magnificence
comparable to THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.

Mind you, it's not SF.

Jon

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