Standard Wolfean Riddle

Gerry Quinn · 16 Aug 2010, 14:48 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:48:45 +0100
Subject: (urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle
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Message-ID: <29FEB30828064A4281AE4476CC6611B6@jill>

From: "Ant?nio Pedro Marques" <entonio at gmail.com>

> I can't see why God would send a 'better' Jesus to a given universe. Also, 
> I think Severian comes too late in History to be the local Jesus.

It may not be truly late in the history of Urth.  Although there is some 
contradictory evidence with regard to geological processes, my personal view 
is that Severian's time is perhaps fifty to a hundred thousand years from 
now.  If so, there are still hundreds of millions of years to go (and if the 
Sun gets too hot, as astrophysicists say it eventually will, perhaps we can 
then ask for the black hole to be put back!).

- Gerry Quinn

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