Black Sun, Wh

Tony Ellis · 16 Feb 1998, 16:02 · from urth-v0007.mbox · original

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From: "Tony Ellis" <tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Re: (urth) Black Sun, Wh
Date: 16 Feb 1998 17:02:38 +0100
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
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                                                                      =3D
16/02/98
                                                                      =3D
09:37
 RE>Re: (urth) Black Sun, White Fountain

Kieran Cleary wrote:
>So to be explicit: It seems plausible that the black hole in the Old Sun =
=3D
is
>*directly* connected to the White Fountain. Energy/matter exiting =3D
through
>the black hole in the Old Sun appears from the mouth of the White =3D
Fountain.

I love the economy of this theory, but... We are told that the White =3D
Fountain
is releasing energy from another universe into our own. Also, In TUOTNS =3D
we
get to see the White Fountain being created. Since this takes place in
Yesod I would assume that this is the universe from which the fountain
draws its energy.


Rostrum wrote:
>Except I still obviously don't understand anything because if the world
>Severian returns to is a whole new universe, then the Urth of the first
>four books never gets a New Sun, it just dies with the old one.

Severian doesn't return to a new universe. He visits a new one when he
goes to Yesod, but the universe he returns to is the same old one he
left.

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