Severian and the corridor of time.

brunians at brunians.org · 04 Aug 2010, 03:39 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:39:37 -0400
Subject: (urth) Severian and the corridor of time.
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Oooo, another JW!

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> In Urth of the new Sun, Severian travel back through the corridor of time
> to
> the ancient civilization and becomes Apu-Punchau.  He goes to that time
> because that is the time when the new sun is created and cannot go back
> any
> further his powers come from the new sun and cannot go back any further
> than
> it was created. But then once he gets there he does not have any of his
> powers and the Hierodules say that this is because the light from the New
> Sun gives him his power and this light has not yet reached Urth. According
> to this, he should only of been able to travel back to where the New Sun's
> light has came to Urth.
> I am missing something or do this not make any sense to anyone else as
> well.
> Is the corridor of time outside of time/space and only needs the power
> from
> the New Sun to access it, 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.
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