Some problems if the Pancreator/Outsider is theHoly

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 12 Jun 2002, 16:18 · from urth-v0206.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Some problems if the Pancreator/Outsider is theHoly
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:18:39 -0700
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Rostrum saith:

> If you're going to count the intros/appendix where Wolfe talks about
> translating Severian's manuscript, Wolfe directly refers to all the
> stuff of Severian's time being in the future, or "futurity."

Yes. But on the other hand, he also writes of having been allowed
to tour and photograph the "surviving" buildings of that distant
future period. Which seems to put the distant future into the distant
past and make the whole thing cyclic after all, dunnit?

--Dan'l

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