More on Juturna

Jeff Wilson · 29 Apr 2006, 05:23 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:23:16 -0500
Subject: (urth) More on Juturna
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pthwndxrclzp wrote:

> Don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet...but do Juturna & Co. 
> necessarily have to possess the power to see the future themselves? What 
> I mean is, couldn't someone or something else (cacogens, Abaia, etc.) 
> have just *told* various Undines pieces of the future? Why do we need to 
> assume the undines have that ability themselves?

Because the undines *demonstrate* it, via

1) Juturna's non-linear personal experiences

2) Juturna's pointing out the time-ward directions of travel to Severian

3) Idas' presence on the time-travelling Ship.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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