What's So Great About Ushas?

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 13 Jun 2008, 14:25 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:25:56 -0700
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
> The Ushas upheavals probably didn't destroy Abaia. Juturna, speaking as the
> White Fountain arrives, says he is still planning to "tame" (enslave) the
> human race (Urth XLIII). The religion predicted that the New Sun would "kill
> Abaia" (Sword XXI), but that was probably wishful thinking. It is unlikely
> that a flood would kill a being whose element is water. (However, it was a
> setback for Abaia's plans in some way, or he wouldn't have sent Idas to try
> to wreck Severian's mission on the Ship).

It isn't just a flood; new continents are thrust up. If Abaia, who is pretty
huge, couldn't get out of the way in time, he would be left a rotting
corpse on one of the new continents.

Which might explain the immense ribcage over New Crobuzon, come
to think of it ....

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