Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

James Wynn · 07 Jun 2010, 16:14 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:14:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe
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I guess I thought that Yesod was a megauniverse with Briah being 
equivalent to a planet within it? Is that wrong?

On 6/7/2010 7:39 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> You're right - I got them back to front.
>
> But I still think Yesod and Briah are different universes, not the 
> same univese at different times.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: (urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe
>
>
>> On 6/6/2010 11:13 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm afraid you've got that reversed from the texts. From the opening 
>> of URTH's Chapter XV Yesod:
>>
>> "...I now saw our universe, a circle no larger than an ebon moon in 
>> the sky of Yesod, ..."
>>
>> -- 
>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>> IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
>> < http://ieeetamut.org >
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