House Absolute

Dave Tallman · 01 Dec 2008, 20:47 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:47:45 -0700
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
Message-ID: <1bf4dd40812011247ue97d0eeh759161a938c2f947 at mail.gmail.com>

Matthew Groves wrote:

> Therefore, if the elapsed time between our present and Severians is a
> pertinent detail, then the clues to it will be found among the nodes of that
> rhizome.  The Lexicon Urthus 2nd ed. has some interesting things to say
> about this under "History of Urth."  (BTW, can someone tell me what the
> abbreviations P.S. and S.R. mean in this book?)
>
> The abbreviations seem to mean "Pre-Severian" and "Severian Regnant," a
date scheme based on the year Severian became autarch.
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