House Absolute

Jeff Wilson · 04 Dec 2008, 00:26 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:26:06 -0600
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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David Stockhoff wrote:
> That's a fine answer, especially the second part.
> 
> However, to be fair, Severian also remarks on tree stumps having been
> petrified, and then performs one of the speculations for which he is
> notorious, without pointing even slightly in the direction of hubris.
> Perhaps these can also be read as opportunities for Severian to be
> Severian.

Petrified tree stumps are no problem, they can happen in as little as 
100,000 years, and the pile of uncorruptive statue-bodies at Saltus 
demonstrate that a similar preservative process was in use in some 
distant time - for all we know, the tree stumps were thus petrified for 
use playing draughts in a park.

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

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