House Absolute

Jeff Wilson · 02 Dec 2008, 09:45 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:45:56 -0600
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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O'Donnell, Tim (BOSI) wrote:
> Likewise the mountains containing evidence of past ages.  What struck me 
> in this section of the job is how incredible the engineering job that 
> created these mountains of Auturchs was.  Severian at one point
> 
> wonders how the machinery could have passed this way.  Technology that 
> would allow an Auturch to carve their face in the mountain would surely 
> allow them to create artificial mountains using whatever building
> 
> material was to hand (digging deep into the Earth's crust even to obtain 
> the materials).

The mountain faces are precisely as believable as Mt. Rushmore and 
Georgia's Stone Mountain.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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