Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

Lee Berman · 12 Aug 2010, 17:19 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:19:04 -0400
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
Message-ID: <SNT123-W226583AB1DE031983F9A01CF970 at phx.gbl>

>Tony Ellis- You think that when Hierogrammates say "your own race made us" they
>mean 'the human beings of your particular universe'. They don't. They
>just mean 'human beings'. The endless virtually identical iterations
>of Briah all contain Severian's 'own race'.

Tony, crystal clear understanding of the speech of Hierogrammates is surely a skill
to be admired. I did promise in my last post that it was a last shot so I'll leave it
at that. The issue of what is meant by "cognate race" had been nicely discussed in 
recent posts by Antonio Marques, David Stockhoff and James Wynn. I'm certain they do a 
better job than I can.

:- )

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