Appearances of Inire

Jeff Wilson · 02 Jul 2010, 02:48 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:48:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) Appearances of Inire
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On 7/1/2010 9:03 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> So you think the Yesodis are operating a time-travel
> historical-intervention scheme, from a perspective at the end of Urth's
> universe?

Many such, though the perspective might be more from above than from the 
chronological end. Yesod doesn't seem to follow Earth-Urth-Ushas in 
time. In a a way, that would support the beneficence of the Yesodis, who 
in that case are helping this parallel or offshoot universe they have no 
stake in to avoid the sort of horrid durance that drove their forebears 
off of or out of the cycle of bangs and gnabs before they perfected 
their union with the Increate.

This can still be read cynically as the Yesodis experimenting on a 
serially unconnected universe so that they don't snuff it if they 
accidentally break the chain of causality by killing *everyone*, but I 
like the tough love, Clarkean version better.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
< http://ieeetamut.org >

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