"Urth" history (was onomatopoeia)

Jeff Wilson · 01 May 2008, 21:53 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 16:53:47 -0500
Subject: (urth) "Urth" history (was onomatopoeia)
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b sharp wrote:
> While Earth got its spiritual cleansing with the
> Biblical Flood and coming of Jesus, Urth had to wait millions of years 
> longer for the Christ-figure Severian to arrive.

There is a problem in that Urth's history seems to include a Christian 
era as well.

The millions of years figure is more figurative than literally 
believeable; how likely are recognizeable buildings to remain in the 
Stone Town without maintenance for a million years, or the stars in the 
Southern Cross to remain vaguely close togetgher

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