Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?

Michael Straight · 07 Jul 1998, 16:12 · from urth-v0016.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:12:25
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I asked:

> >Urth's sun is dying for some reason.  Severian goes to get a White
> >Fountain, but brings it back to a different universe, to Ushas, whose sun
> >is, as far as I know, doing just fine.  How does this action help either
> >Urth or Ushas?

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Marc Coleman answered:

> Ushas is Urth post-White Fountain.  The White Fountain is the new sun of
> the same universe that Urth was in. =20

So Ushas and Urth are in the same universe?  Ushas is simply Urth some
years later when the newly restored sun has melted the ice?   Somehow I
thought it was more complicated than that.

-Rostrum

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