Urth before Earth

Roy C. Lackey · 23 Jul 2006, 18:22 · from 2006-July.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:22:58 -0500
Subject: (urth) Urth before Earth
Message-ID: <000c01c6ae85$093cc9e0$aa3ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

bsharp wrote:
>Genesis 37:9 is
>about Joseph and reads:
>
>>Then he had another dream, and this one, too, he told to his brothers. "I
>>had another dream," he >said; "this time, the sun and the moon and eleven
>>stars were bowing down to me."
>
>I can't even find that in Urth. It surely is important.  Help!

Page 267. This line immediately follows the biblical quote:

"Its words show plainly how much wiser the peoples of ages
long past were than we are now; not for nothing is that
book titled _The Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky_."

Severian had memorized the entire brown book. His words indicate to me that
Earth is unquestionably in Urth's past.

-Roy

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