Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

Ryan Dunn · 10 Aug 2010, 19:54 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:54:42 -0400
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
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On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:49 PM, James Wynn wrote:

> Well, she is saying that in Yesod they _are_ traveling back in Time, no? I'm not sure how to clamp this to what Severian said about Yesod in _Citadel_. This seems to draw Yesod as existing *within* Briah. At first blush, it looks like when writing UotNS, Wolfe had completely forgotten about the construct for his universes in tBotNS.
> 
> It does explain (a little) how Severian's actions with Apheta creates the New Sun since it would then take millennia for the light from that star to reach Urth.


What's good about all of this discourse, is that while it makes my head swim, Wolfe never intended for it to be part of Severian's journey, as it was all off-stage. So when I think of it that way, I wonder how important some of this information is to BotNS as a whole, and I'm relieved.

:)

...ryan

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