House Absolute

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 01 Dec 2008, 17:14 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:14:30 -0800
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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Nessus as B.A. is *not* universally accepted. There is a
small group, of whom I am one, who take it as given that
the continents have changed by the time of the NS. It
appears that the core of the Urth has cooled; this is implies
a futureity of hundreds of millions, probably billions, of years
from our time. And until the core *does* cool to solidity,
tectonics will continue to move the continents around,
submerge some and raise up others, as it has done since
the crust hardened.

Therefore I suggest that to identify the contient of
Severian's journey as South America is not so much
wrong as meaningless.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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