Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

Gerry Quinn · 06 Jun 2010, 16:13 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:13:16 +0100
Subject: (urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>

> That's not really the interpretatation I am presenting. Urth becomes Ushas
> not Earth. Urth is part of an entire universe, named Briah, which Big 
> Bangs
> into existence, runs its course then collapses and Grand Gnabs itself into
> a single mass and out of existence. This single mass then Big Bangs itself
> into a creation of the next universe which is called Yesod.

Severian's universe (which is also ours IMO) is named Yesod.

That of the Hierodules is called Briah.

- Gerry Quinn.

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