Blushas

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 26 Nov 2002, 17:24 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: (urth) Blushas
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:24:31 -0700
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Okay, let's take this one step at a time.

Suppose that Blue is Urth/Ushas and Green is Lune.

Okay, let's suppose that. That means we have to allow astral
time travel.

Then we have the question, "Why, when astrally projecting with
the Duko, did the Narrator wind up in the age of Severian?"

Well, that seems a little difficult to me. To diffuse one=3D20
answer -- the presence of the Duko will _not_ resolve the
problem, because the Duko comes from the time of Typhon.
Thus, if we extend the "you can only project to somewhere
someone in your group has been to before" idea to time, you
wind up having them project to the time of Typhon -- which,
evidently, they don't.=3D20

I challenge the supporters of the "Blue =3D3D Ushas" theory to
come up with a good and reasonable explanation of why they
wind up in Severian's time.

I offer extra credit if it does not include any lame=3D20
invocations of relativity. ("Oh, see, well, 1000 years have=3D20
passed for the cargo of the Starcrosser, so they project
to 1000 years after when the Duko left...")

--Blattid

--=20

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