random thoughts:

Andy Robertson · 30 Jan 2002, 13:10 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) random thoughts:
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:10:30 -0000
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I am still thinking about your fasinating idea about the trees eating and
recombining with Horn in the pit.

I am not convinced, quite, but I agree that Horn's time in the pit was a
death-and -ressurection experience.    The similarity with the bit in THE
URTH OF THE NEW SUN where Severian dies and is re-embodied (on the Ship,
after a disasterous fall) is significant, I think.

Just starting my third rereading of RETURN TO THE WHORL

    hartshorn

(But I'm increasingly convinced that Blue and Green are Ushas and
broken-free Lune,  and the the Whorl has returned home.  Yes)

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