This week in Google Alerts

Jeff Wilson · 01 Nov 2011, 15:15 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:43 -0500
Subject: (urth) This week in Google Alerts
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On 11/1/2011 7:23 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong, but Severian states that there is a cyclical nature to the universe, with each cycle a refinement of its predecessor, though nearly identical.

He receives that wisdom from Aquastor Malrubius, yes. It is from Dr 
Talos, I believe, that he hears about stories and other ideas 
percolating back and forth through time, which helps explain why 
displaced mountains and their consequent altered influences on climate, 
watersheds, areas of arable land, trade routes, etc don't prevent 
recognizable cultures from occupying the variant landscape.

Or the author misremembered, I forget which.

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

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