Ymar

António Pedro Marques · 27 May 2011, 00:39 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Ant=C3=B3nio_Pedro_Marques?=)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 01:39:02 +0100
Subject: (urth) Ymar
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No dia 26/05/2011, ?s 20:48, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu:

> There are, I think, two relevant interviews - one from the time of
> BOTNS which just makes Ymar a chiliad earlier; the other a later one
> which makes Typhon a chiliad earlier. The second seems to contradict
> the most natural reading of BOTNS, and suggests that Wolfe has
> adjusted his timeline at some point. I suggest that part of that
> adjustment was to make Typhon and Ymar contemporaries, when they
> hadn't been before.

And which wasn't at all needed. That's why I find it strange that GW would do violence to his chronology. I like Sergei's idea that Ymar may have been autarch centuries after he was born. Or Ymar the first autarch may not have been Ymar the Almost Just, why should the latter need such a qualifier?

> 
>> The chronology based on the Rajan's spirit-travel is pretty dicey. The
>> Rajan is a Time traveler, and if you consider pay attention to when Horn
>> left home, and how long ago Hoof and Hide left, it is clear that the
>> Rajan has been jumping around alot.
> 
> Is that relevant, though? The gap the characters are trying to
> determine is between Rigoglio's departure (Typhon's time) and his
> return (Severian's time) - both on Urth. What the Rajan's home time
> is, on Blue, is another issue.

I think so too, but JW liked the opportunity to defend his theory as fact. 





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