What's so Green about Ushas?

Tony Ellis · 17 Jul 2008, 21:16 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:16:31 +0100
Subject: (urth) What's so Green about Ushas?
Message-ID: <9a33123d0807171416j642c2b24kb472a1bfb7f97476 at mail.gmail.com>

Roy C Lackey wrote:
>The multiple brooks refers to the brooks that run between the tiered
>universes. Small Tzadkiel could show him only the one brook, Madregot,
>because that was where she had been exiled by her larger self.

Yet at least three of these brooks lead to Briah. The Green Man races
beside one, and you say he travels only within Briah. Small Tzadkiel
flutters beside a second, which is Madregot, and Severian chooses a
third. The fact that Wolfe bothers to show us Severian choosing *not*
to take the Green Man's brook seems significant to me.

>Since the brooks run between universes, it would not be very meaningful for
>the Corridors of Time to be merely congruent with them.

I think they may be more synonymous than you realise. First of all,
note that "to enter the corridors of time is to leave the universe."
CotA, XXXIV.

And secondly, congruent or not, the brooks run between universes, but
they also run through time:

"Madregot flows from the glory of Yesod" - she pointed upstream - "to
the destruction of Briah, down that way." She pointed again. "Follow
the water, and you'll be at a time nearer the coming of your star."
UotNS, XL

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