Fuligin as Black Hole...

Ryan Dunn · 30 Jul 2010, 16:36 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:36:33 -0400
Subject: (urth) Fuligin as Black Hole...
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On Jul 30, 2010, at 8:55 AM, John Watkins wrote:

> If the coloring has some meaning beyond that particular to the torturers' guild (they torture people and seem to have some connection, literal or metaphoric, to Catholic priesthood, so are in black), then it must be read in connection with the robes of argent, the color more white than white, that Severian is about to put on at the end of Citadel.  So I think a connection to the old sun and/or its black hole is probably intended.

Right, and in that sense, I can sort of hear Will Smith at the end of this journey, putting on the argent robe and saying something like:

"We 'bout to change the sun, yo!"

I can dig it.

...ryan

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