This week in Google Alerts

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 02 Nov 2011, 16:40 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:40:59 -0700
Subject: (urth) This week in Google Alerts
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Craig Brewer wrote:

> In the end, I prefer it to be "a really
> long time" and not knowing exactly is a more appropriate sense of history
> that Severian has throughout most of the book. This is one of those cases
> where I prefer it when the "clues" don't add up to a consistent picture.

Man's got a point. Perhaps "when" is not one of the mysteries we're
intended to solve -- and really, other than satisfying our SF-nerd,
anal-retentive desire to nail everything down (to which I plead as
guilty as anyone), what difference does it make? Twenty thousand and a
few hundred million years are both (honestly) far enough into the
future that our minds can't really hold them. After all, if you go
only a few thousand years into the _past_ you're into the shadows of
myth and uncertainty.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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