Severian and the corridor of time.

David Stockhoff · 04 Aug 2010, 01:24 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:24:16 -0400
Subject: (urth) Severian and the corridor of time.
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Maybe he skidded past the exact point where the light reaches Urth, 
because he was going so fast.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> Is the corridor of time outside of time/space and only needs the power
>> from
>> the New Sun to access it
>>     
>
> We don't know for sure. The business about moving in a direction not seen
> before suggests that movement om  higher spatial dimension is involved.
> The power of the New Sun may not be needed in general, but it may be that
> *Severian* needs the power of the White Fountain to achieve that movement.
> All the other folks that travel the Corridors seem to do it in ways that
> are light-related in some way (mirrors, reflective sails) or the travelers
> themselves are light-related (the Green Man, the Hierdules presumably make
> both the time-spanning saucers, the White Fountain, and the sun of Yesod),
> except for Juturna, which is why I think she is secretly related to
> Severian.
>
>   
>> but then he should be able to travel to anytime
>> he
>> wants, even before the new sun was created.
>> I am just looking at someone else's input on this.
>>     
>
> Once in the Corridors, he may be able to travel any distance on either
> Fountain-power or human muscle power, and then step down into the normal
> world of four dimensions. But without the White Fountain or a similar
> power source to draw on, he can't go back up to the Corridors. It may be
> that he decides to write URTH at all because with the White Fountain
> contained, concealed, or even consumed by the new sun, he is stuck in the
> early time centuries of Ushas , and is making the best of his forced
> retirement from saviorhood.
>
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