The Morality of the Hierogrammates

Bruce Hayles · 23 Jul 2007, 22:27 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: brucehayles at gmail.com (Bruce Hayles)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:27:03 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Morality of the Hierogrammates
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I'm not sure what the confusion is about. Baldanders says that the
flood is caused by  gravitational forces from the New Sun in Urth of
the New Sun XLII.

On 7/23/07, Paul B <pb.stuff at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's fine, but it's about as difficult to explain sudden global tectonic
> shifts than it is to explain a flood.
>
>
> On 7/23/07, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> > > I recently read the archive discussion about the theodicean aspect of
> > > BotNS,
> > > and the morality and necessity of the flood that accompanies the new
> sun.
> > > One thing struck me, and if it's old hat, then I've not been thorough
> > > enough
> > > in reading the archives.  That thing is the precipitous pace of the
> flood,
> > > which apparently takes Urth in a matter of days and surprises those at
> the
> > > House Absolute by the time that Severian shows up.  A flood of Biblical
> > > proportions, if you will.
> > >
> > > Now, one thing that has been jokingly asked of that one, can be
> seriously
> > > asked of this: where does the water come from?
> >
> > The continents are drowned, new continents rise where the oceans are, the
> > oceans move around. No new water required.
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
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> Paul Borochin
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