Key to the Universe

Lee Berman · 17 Dec 2010, 20:51 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:51:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) Key to the Universe
Message-ID: <SNT123-W42B263958EE1A517FB51B0CF160 at phx.gbl>

>Adam Thornton- A couple years ago I looked and could not find any actual photo from the Apollo 
>missions that replicated the scene described.  

Heh, funny. Same here.

If we envision the sequential universes as an ascending spiral, or maybe stacked toroids, as 
Son ofa Witz suggested, it would be easy to envision a portal linking the adjacent coils or donut 
rings. Maybe like an Inire/Hethor mirror?

I don't think we're given enough information to know how, but it seems clear there is some way for
stuff from Earth to have made it to Urth (I suppose some would argue it is simply longevity).

Some of the stuff could be just Urthly versions of Earth stuff, like the moon astronaut. But some
seem too perfectly Earthian to be seen that way. I think Jonas' literary allusions are the best example.
His Alice/Looking Glass quote and him supplying the Earth/Theseus ending to Severian's story "proves" to 
me that he (robot form) has either been to Earth or, more likely, spent significant time with true Earth books.

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