planetary problems

Jeff Wilson · 27 Dec 2010, 22:17 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:17:19 -0600
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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On 12/27/2010 12:41 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>
>> Marc Aramini: Yes, the question of what exactly Blue is remains a big problem of understanding
>> what happened when the New Sun came,  why there is a city there underwater, maybe even what caused
>> the eclipse that spared Severian's life in the time of Apu Punchau.
>
> Hm. I already mentioned the ruins beneath Blue's Ocean. And I have long thought the "Accepted Lupine
> Gospel" was on the wrong track with regard to the eclipse ("Tzadkiel's Ship caused it"). What is the
> direction of your thoughts, Marc?
>
> Lately I have been considering the nearly endlessly repeated fuligin imagery we get associated with
> Severian and remembering that one of the nicknames for the Conciliator/New Sun which confuses Severian is:
> Dark Star.

"Of all the names of the Conciliator, the one that is, I believe, least 
used, and which has always seemed the most puzzling to me, is that of 
Black Sun." - SWORD, Chapter VIII.

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

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