UotNS and how it screws with your head

David Stockhoff · 13 Jul 2010, 17:38 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:38:45 -0400
Subject: (urth) UotNS and how it screws with your head
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So you're thinking power could be drained from past Sun to future Sun? 
That's interesting---not what I thought at all. Sensible though.

I assume that all universes coexist, and they are layered like a wedding 
cake, or like Able's world. Love flows from the top. Rotating spigots 
moved by elves and fairies control the flow. Devils punch holes in the 
frosting. What goes down does not come up, because the love is indeed 
inexhaustible.

Typhon preceded the Autarchs. Thus, he preceded FI, who began the 
program of rehabilitation. But it's hard to see what Typhon did that 
could be so horribly wrong, beyond indulging in his own creation (i.e., 
the Whorl).

If a Conciliator bridges gulfs and closes gaps, could he also add 1+ 
(-1) and get 0?

John Watkins wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:25 PM, David Stockhoff 
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     Do we have a better explanation for the black hole? I haven't seen
>     one.
>
> I've been assuming it has something to do with Typhon.  I also have a 
> wacky hypothesis that there are clues to how this may have occurred in 
> other Wolfe books, but I really don't have an account for it at this 
> point.  So I guess I have to fall back on my point about theme, and 
> saying that we're told, repeatedly, that the white fountain comes from 
> another universe, not from the sun itself in the past, and that we 
> never see Severian taking any action that could account for the black 
> hole being placed in the sun when he's running around in the past.
>  
> The one thing I'll say for the alternate hypothesis is that the 
> timelines do seem to match up.  If the White Fountain enters the 
> universe in Typhon's time and is using the sun as its power source, it 
> is an unusual coincidence.  However, the coincidence is necessary to 
> put Severian-as-Conciliator in Typhon's time.
>  
>

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