Black beans

Jeff Wilson · 10 Mar 2001, 13:52 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Black beans
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:52:32
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> From: "Tony Ellis" <tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk>
=20
> > ...Who is
> > responsible for putting the black hole in the sun?
> >
>=20
> Well, not Erebus and co, for a start. Freezing the only element that can
> support you into a solid block of ice isn't much of a long-term
> strategy. Neither is annihilating the world you want to enslave. In any
> case, we're specifically told in UOTNS that by bringing the white
> fountain Severian has helped his enemies.

	Could there be factions among the powers of darkness? Since while Abaia
and his undines would be unable to function in the Ragnarok future,
Erebus is already in the midst of the frozen wastes of Antarctica, and
Master Ash gets by.  Ash could be a lower level dupe, of course, but he
must serve something that persists into the icy future.

--=20
Jeff Wilson
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