Sigh.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 11 Jan 2011, 21:05 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:05:49 -0800
Subject: (urth) Sigh.
Message-ID: <AANLkTimr3BjvHg1wm5=r_VN7-3ogizvQpuR2n1_rGZzV at mail.gmail.com>

Look. I'm sorry, but any connection between the Blue/Green(/Whorl)
system and the Urth/Lune(/Ushas) system is purely thematic/symbolic --
NOT physical. Urth's sun, still red, is visible in the skies of Blue.
Unless you want to propose that Ushas and Lune, in their distant,
post-Severian, future, are transported (a) across the sea of stars and
(b) backwards in time, they're different systems.

There's all sorts of good thematic/symbolic stuff going on, of course,
and StCroix/SteAnne can also be brought in here, but please don't
confuse this hermeneutic level with that of the fictive "reality."

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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