Of lost books and millenia

Jason Voegele · 06 Feb 1998, 00:58 · from urth-v0007.mbox · original

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From: "Jason Voegele" <voegele.6 at osu.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Of lost books and millenia
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:58:39
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    David Lebling wrote:
    >On geography, to CRCulver:  The action of the tetralogy takes place =
in
    >South America, and yet there is a great river that flows =
southwestward
    >over a plain, and great mountains to the north and east of the =
plain.
    >This isn't _our_ South America.=20
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    I hate to use the "C" word, but is there any chance you could
    provide citations for the mountains-to-the-east claim? Or at least
    point me in the right direction?=20
   =20
I think this crops up when Severian comes to Typhon's little home in the =
mountains.  I've heard two theories.  One, Urth's magnetic poles have =
flip-flopped, thus North and South have taken on the opposite meaning =
that we are accustomed to.  Two, Severian has some sort of =
depth-perception problem (sorry, can't recall the technical term) which =
causes him Somehow to confuse left/right/east/west etc.

Jason Voegele


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