Chronology

Jeff Wilson · 26 May 2011, 17:34 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:34:48 -0500
Subject: (urth) Chronology
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On 5/26/2011 6:16 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> I find the chronology overall very confusing but I'm certain it is just as GW intended it, because he didn't have any gun to his head not to make it correct.
>
> - Ymar both sounds and doesn't sound like the first autarch - though just as Typhon refers to himself as autarch, commonwealthers may have applied the term to any earlier ruler.

Right on - "autarch" is understood to mean the ruler in charge of a 
nation - so it gets used for any number of nation rulers, who weren't 
necessarily THE Autarch, or called themselves that at the time. Like the 
current interchangeability of king and pharaoh.

> - Typhon shouldn't have been forgotten, even if his rise and fall were meteoric - cf Alexander -, could memory of him have been deliberately suppressed? And yet they'd leave him around in his mountain?

It was a pretty remote mountain, and the giant robots still animate in 
Severian's day may have kept people at a respectful distance in earlier, 
livelier centuries. By the time of their decrepitude, it was just one 
more carved mountain among many.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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