spatial temporal rules of astral travel

Marc Aramini · 23 Dec 2010, 19:38 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:38:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) spatial temporal rules of astral travel
In-Reply-To: <4D13752F.7010604 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <567319.92137.qm at web58203.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Thanks Antonio.? I just feel like the huge evidence of sentient recombinatory hybridizing tree life is more than an echo of the Green Man future, and that the theme of the book is one of homecoming and change: you spend all this time trying to go home, and you realize its not your home (Silk arriving at Horn's house, knowing its not his home, the whorl winding up back at Urth but it being completely unrecognizable)? I know those are kind of opposite themes, but it reminds me of the man crossing the river quote - you can't cross the same river twice, its not the same river and you aren't the same man.? I feel that there is an important THEME of true homecoming being an impossibility because of changes in identity that is particularly satsified by the return to a world that is OBVIOUSLY not the cultural home of man.? The story Horn has to enact where corpses are cleared from a stagnant water pool to allow a deluge, where he is given a sword, seems like
 a mythical retelling of Severian's tale, and I don't know what else to do with it.? 

--- On Thu, 12/23/10, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

I like parts of your exposition, Marc. It only seems to me that after a number of insights and interesting deductions, some of your conclusions (Urth = Green (or Blue, even, if it were), the time lapses) are not up to the same standard. You've built quite an interesting building, but I don't think the roof matches the awesomeness of the rest.
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