What meaning does the family tree lend to the story itself?

Jonathon McKitrick · 25 Aug 2006, 20:57 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:57:57 +0100
Subject: (urth) What meaning does the family tree lend to the story itself?
Message-ID: <20060825205757.GH79740 at dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

I'm still at the point of figuring out the time traveling, the multiple Sev's
and so on, but once you understand that Sev becomes the "New Sun" and saves
Urth, what additional meaning is there to be extracted by understanding his
entire family tree?  And since that really cannot be done, apparently, without
confirmation from Mr. Wolfe himself, how can the true meaning of an
inscrutable family tree ever be known?

Jonathon McKitrick
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