Fr Inire + Cumean + others

brunians at brunians.org · 17 Jul 2010, 18:03 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:03:29 -0400
Subject: (urth) Fr Inire + Cumean + others
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There's an application on the web that you can use to learn how to see
four dimensions.

Hold on I'll post the link.


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> On 7/17/2010 7:53 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I'd guess something happened at that moment to put Severian into that
>> perspective. Perhaps it wasn't Severian who slipped into 4 dimensions
>> but the Cumaean.
>
> He sees 4D on several occasions, generally whenever something departs
> into the Corridors of Time "in that direction I had never seen until I
> watched the ship vanish into it from the top of Baldanders's castle and
> could only see, it seemed, when there was something there. Immediately
> he turned and began to run, and despite the dimness of the dawn sky I
> could see his running figure for a long time, illuminated by
> intermittent but regular flashes. At last he faded to a point of
> darkness; but then, just when I expected that point to disappear
> utterly, it began to grow, so that I had the impression of something
> huge rushing toward me down that strangely angled tunnel."
>
> I've seen the snake/pink worm metaphor used before with higher
> dimensionality, particularly Heinlein's "Lifeline", but Sev's visions of
> objects in the corridors seem more literal.
>
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