Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 07 Jun 2010, 17:31 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:31:15 -0500
Subject: (urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe
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On 6/7/2010 11:14 AM, James Wynn wrote:
> I guess I thought that Yesod was a megauniverse with Briah being
> equivalent to a planet within it? Is that wrong?

Briah is a universe very much like our own, with lots of galaxies. All 
we see of Yesod is a huge planet-like mechanism that supposedly has an 
island or group of islands for each inhabited galaxy or group of 
galaxies in Briah. This makes the Yesod universe still pretty small 
compared to Briah, or it could be that The Ship is just very accurate in 
where it emerges into the higher dimension.

The Yesodis show they are able to open peep-holes into Briah, and in 
fact that is how Severian returns to our universe by leaping through one 
to join The Ship "after" it has left without him. I say "after" with the 
quotes becuase some of the people on The Ship are younger than he 
encountered them before, and it famously arrives a thousand years before 
he first boarded it.

This peep-hole between the dimensions is described as moonlike in 
appearance, just as the dimensional apperature where The Ship entered 
Yesod was. This was the basis for my pet theory that the Whorl could 
have been secretly diverted by the Yesodis to just about anywhere in 
Briah's space or time, allowing Blue and Green to be Urth and Lune 
PLANET OF THE APES-style, but that's largely fallen by the wayside now.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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