vanished people=Hieros

Gerry Quinn · 10 Nov 2011, 15:48 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:48:36 -0000
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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From: Marc Aramini 
> Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night 
> Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: 
>   And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught 
> The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. 

> Just wanted to ask a question about this cosmologically.  What is moving
>  in this quote?  How does it apply to what's going on in Urth of the New 
> Sun?  Is the noose simply an effluvium or arreola of light around something 
> stationary?  Or is it grabbing hold of the turret?  Which stone has been flung?

My first thought is that Morning = Head of Day = Severian, and the stone that puts the stars to flight is the White Fountain.  But nothing literal is intended.  I guess the Hunter of the East is the Sun (both in Wolfe?s interpretation and the original) and the Sultan?s Turret could be a tower in Nessus, or in the dawn anywhere.

- Gerry Quinn





 
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