Standard Wolfean riddle

James Wynn · 12 Aug 2010, 21:10 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:10:07 -0500
Subject: (urth) Standard Wolfean  riddle
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 >>The concepts of before and after are meaningless across universes.
 >>Timeis a property of each universe, like space. Any other universe
 >>isn't in Briah's future any more than it is behind or west or south 
of it.
 >>This much is axiomatic physics, not something someone like Wolfe
 >>would not understand or leave aside.

 >---Exactly. Apheta said Severian's friends were yet unborn. Why?

I'm also perplexed by this statement but I am certain that it *doesn't* 
mean that Yesod is the mantavara immediately *after* Briah.

Could it be that Tzadkiel was already traveling in Briah at a Time in 
the distant Briahtic past so that the light of the far-away newborn 
White Fountain would reach Urth at its appointed time in the relative 
Future?

u+16b9

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