Of lost books and millenia

CRCulver · 06 Feb 1998, 16:39 · from urth-v0007.mbox · original

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From: CRCulver at aol.com
Subject: Re:  Re: (urth) Of lost books and millenia
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:39:10
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

>Two, Severian has some sort of depth-perception problem (sorry, can't reca=
ll
the technical term) which causes him Somehow to confuse left/right/east/west
etc.<

THe idea that Severian is spatially dyslexic has arisen before. I believe t=
he
example used then is how he got lost on the Ship even when he had the corre=
ct
directions and remembered them perfectly.


>One, Urth's magnetic poles have flip-flopped, thus North and South have
taken on the opposite meaning that we are accustomed to.<

According to estimates I have heard. This would take at least 100,000 years.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html
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-Brendan Perry

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