The Outsider

Jeff Wilson · 18 Dec 2010, 07:17 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:17:41 -0600
Subject: (urth) The Outsider
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On 12/17/2010 2:38 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
>
> Also, Master Ultan says that the library houses "books cased in perfumed
> woods shipped across the inconceivable gulf between creations - books
> doubly precious because no one on Urth can read them."

This is almost certainly an indirect reference to Kant, who used the 
term "island universes" when conjecturing that spiral nebula were not 
merely clouds of gas but galaxies like our own Milky Way. The Yesodis 
also use "creation" to mean "galaxy", and have a literal island devoted 
to each one humans inhabit.

> So I'm saying each creation, acording to the text, is not a closed system.

This is still true, but there's much less interchange between 
manvantaras than is otherwise suggested between Urth and Earth by G.W.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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