UotNS and how it screws with your head

Gerry Quinn · 13 Jul 2010, 16:03 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:03:12 +0100
Subject: (urth) UotNS and how it screws with your head
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I think it was the white fountain too.

Of course, there is another issue with the white fountain, which Mr. Thallassocrat, at least, may find interesting.  The concept of a white hole comes from the maximally extended Schwarzschild solution for a black hole.  Few nowadays think that white holes exist in nature - but if one does it should be associated with a black hole (though perhaps in a different universe).

It would also make sense in that the result of combining the two should be to negate both - this doesn't seem so probable if an arbitrary black hole meets an arbitrary white hole.

Could Severian, therefore, also have created the black hole in the Sun?

- Gerry Quinn

  From: Cliff Judge 

  And then they engage in what a couple of Wolfe's characters call the "warm congress" and Severian says, I entered Yesod, or rather, it enclosed about me, yada yada, and then he describes his orgasm as this terribly serious cosmic event, and talks about something that is conceived from the union. Then he states that what was conceived was himself.

  Now as a reader who has just decided that its pretty clear that Dorcas is his grandmother, Ouen is his father, and btw I like the idea that his mother is Catherine, of whom a khaibits is slain every year at the Feast of Holy Katherine, there is something in my brain that really WANTS to take the easy way out here and say, right what was conceived was "himself" meaning the actual white fountain that will replenish the sun of Urth.

  But part of me is also thinking....yeah there it is, Severian is his own father.
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