Belated thoughts RE: (urth) Shadowy reflections on an

James Jordan · 19 Apr 2002, 19:39 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>
Subject: Re: Belated thoughts RE: (urth) Shadowy reflections on an
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:39:13 -0500
Message-ID: <urth-v0204-706 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0204/706.txt.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

At 02:20 PM 4/19/2002, you wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, James Jordan wrote:
>
> >          As for how all this fits with conventional Christian eschatolo=
gy;
> > well, it does not have to. The events are in the midst of history, not =
at
> > its full end. But the Bible repeatedly uses Flood language to refer to
> > invading armies and other similar disasters, and also relates the Flood=
 to
> > baptism. Thus, Wolfe can have a Flood-event in the midst of history, wh=
ich
> > is a judgment on an old Ur-world and also a baptism of that world,=20
> ushering
> > in a new Ushas world.
>
>Which raises the question again, are there no more rainbows on
>Urth?  (Other than the one Severian pulls butterflies out of, that is.)
>
>-Rostrum

Cool question!! Is history running backwards on Urth, so that we are moving=20
back toward a Garden of Eden with a Green Man? Probably not, I guess. I=20
guess we just have to leave this problem to authorial license.
         For those who might not know, Rostrum refers to Genesis 9:11-16.
         Hey, I do have an answer, though it may be more than Wolfe=20
intends. The rainbow is generated by the sun. If the Old Sun winks out for=20
an instant before the New Sun kicks in, then briefly there is no rainbow,=20
so there can be another Flood. Can't recall if this is so, though.
         That the best I can do!

Nutria


--=20

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net