House Absolute

Son of Witz · 04 Dec 2008, 00:42 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:42:25 +0000
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
Message-ID: <W512739150112181228351345@webmail33>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Walters [mailto:walters at doubtfulpalace.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 04:28 PM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) House Absolute
>
>> I'm no archaeologist, but isn't the earth a city like UR is found in
>> considered rock and not just dirt.
>
>Nope. Otherwise the artifacts would be fossilized.
>
>> and if not, isn't it rocky enough for someone like Severian who knows of
>> Lightning rather than Electricity, to take a hardpacked sediment as rock?
>> I mean, you can stand on it. you can carve steps into it.
>
>You can't build a cliff that tall out of it without it collapsing.
>
>But for me this is somewhat beside the point. If the scene doesn't
>indicate deep futurity, then there's simply no reason for it to exist. I'm
>happy to accept felicitous implausibilities--in fact what I'm advocating
>is still rather implausible--but not ones that reduce rather than enhance
>the meaning of the text.


Okay.
I think you've swayed me.
How long are you suggesting again? I lose track of which ideas link to which account.

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