Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

Cliff Judge · 14 Jul 2010, 02:53 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: transentient at gmail.com (Cliff Judge)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:53:52 -0400
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Rob Thornton <oblate777 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Cliff Judge <transentient at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for bringing this up, this gives me some food for thought with
> regard
> > to the "down is up" thing I am on about lately.
> >
> > E.g. Typhon throws Severian into the sled, they plummet downwards, then
> > arrive at the very top of Typon's mountain fastness, and Severian asks
> > Typhon how they could have come up so high, when they had just fallen so
> > far.
>
> If I remember correctly, the Autarch's craft employs "anti-iron" as
> some sort of contra-terrene matter that repels gravity. Maybe this
> sled is made of such stuff and they are facing backwards?
>
> Cautiously,
>
> Rob
>
>
Of course. But I would never think a nifty science-fictioney reading would
preclude an allegorical or symbolic reading.
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