Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

Jeff Wilson · 10 Jul 2010, 08:18 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:18:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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On 7/9/2010 6:48 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
>> From: Mr Thalassocrat
>>
>>> But on my side of the argument I have Ash's words about the majority of
>>> the population having been evacuated before the ice death, in his
>>> future. Whatever the benefits of Ushas, why did almost everybody have to
>>> die in Sev's time line? And probably more to the point: why didn't Sev
>>> at least try to make this happen - knowing as he did that it was
>>> possible?
>>
>> I think it is more like, they let it happen as late as they possibly
>> could
>> without endangering the success of the New Sun. This meant a dying urth
>> about to disappear under its final ice age with a population in the
>> millions rather than billions, so that the minimum loss of life would be
>> necessary for the coming of Ushas.
>
> I think the coming of the New Sun is only a relatively short time after
> Severian left; a matter of several decades. His (ex)wife is still alive.
>
> Ash's time, when the glaciers are finally closing in, is - if I recall
> correctly - some four thousand years in the future.

Sev mentions the land abutting the ice in his time - there could come a 
point where even the rehabbed sun could not return the balance if the 
ice advanced far enough. They know Severian takes the Phoenix throne and 
all the other chiliads of  trials and hardhips have worn down the 
populace of old Urth - best to strike then, to delay further could not 
be expected to advance the cause of Ushas.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
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