FTL Travel

Don Doggett · 19 Nov 2002, 07:28 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Don Doggett" <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) FTL Travel
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:28:41 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>

> I think it is quite clear that Wolfe shows FTL travel to be a doorway to a
> divine realm.   Consider the Ship, the corridors of time, the mirrors.
>
> And yes, I do believe Wolfe is **intentionally** conflating the
> Gd-outside-time of the Catholic Boethius with the time-as-fourth-dimension
> of the relativistic Physicist.

This dovetails nicely with the idea of Silk's enlightenment and the Whorl's
(alleged by me) FTL travel happening simultaneously.

Don



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