1000 years to Typhon

maa32 · 20 Feb 2003, 19:52 · from urth-v0302.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) 1000 years to Typhon
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:52:01 -0700
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"Still for a thousand years" does not seem like a hard and fast date. =20
However, this is my whole point - a whole lot of time does not have to have=20
passed after the flooding of Urth for things to have changed enough. =20
Hybridization creates mutant monsters in as little as one generation - and=20
often monsters that are sterile.  And we really don't have an absolutely fi=
rm=20
time between Typhon and Severian.  1200 years could be called a thousand, j=
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as 900 years could be called a thousand.  But a lot can change in 200 years=
. =20
Especially if monsters can change in one generation, as the inhumu obviousl=
y,=20
obviously can.  The moon could still be reeling from the presence of a new=20
gravitational force into the system and be in an unstable orbit.  But it se=
ems=20
as though Maytera Marble's internal clock is off by a factor of ten, at lea=
st=20
hinting that 300 years might conceivably be 3000 or some greater span of ti=
me.
 But I never could make much use of her slipping clock because everything e=
lse=20
seemed to indicate that it was about 300 years in the whorl.

Marc Aramini

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