Sigh

Jeff Wilson · 12 Jan 2011, 15:26 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:26:17 -0600
Subject: (urth) Sigh
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On 1/12/2011 9:16 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote (12-01-2011 15:09):
>> On 1/12/2011 12:09 AM, Adam Thornton wrote:
>>> On 01/11/2011 11:19 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>> On 1/11/2011 10:12 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
>>>>> On 01/11/2011 09:04 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> Borges' Library? Do you mean the Aleph? How is either one
>>>>>> incorporated
>>>>>> into the context of the Sun cycle?
>>>>> Ultan's library occupies some space between (in a mythical sense)
>>>>> Borges' Library of Babel and Borges' National Library.
>>>>
>>>> That's fine, but we need a literal antecedent for the
>>>> see-around-corners thing to be a natural feature of space-time.
>>>> na
>>> Does the supposition in "The Library of Babel" that, if you were
>>> immortal and went in any direction long enough, you'd eventually
>>> encounter the same books in the same disorder, which would thereby
>>> become The Order, count?
>>
>> If you can show me where it is incorporated into the context of possibly
>> observable by the fictional characters of the Short Sun books, sure. For
>> example, stuff that happens in the Amber books could excusably happen in
>> the Vlad Taltos books, because Steven Brust incorporated Corwin's
>> hellride encounter with a horseman in grey as the grey-wearing Vlad's
>> encounter with Corwin.
>
> What if the whole universe is a kind of Moebius strip? Has that
> currently been ruled out?

Yes, because stars don't last long enough for their own light to 
traverse the universe and arrive before they've gone on to non-life 
sustaining dispositions. The Yesodi's could do it though, and I 
entertained a "Planet of the Apes" scenario for the Whorl's return to 
Urth for a while.

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

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