The Two Severians

C R Culver · 02 May 1998, 02:22 · from urth-v0010.mbox · original

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From: C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com>
Subject: Re:  (urth) The Two Severians
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 22:22:40 EDT
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Mantis hypothesised:
<where he was about to grusomely kill the drover whose whip had struck Dorc=
as,
<shazam!> drover killed by his own horses.>

I think myself that that was a more merciful death than the "two apricots."

< Where it seems that the same amount of time has flowed by (a
hundred years?).>

Can it be that long? How have Odilo and Pega and the other lass lived so lo=
ng?

<he can't go into the future at all . . . he can only go to the Present
as defined by the white fountain!>

That is, perhaps, because the future hasn't happened yet, and a Severian3
hasn't come about.

<At that moment, it seems to me, Severian2 has become Severian1>

It's ever so nice to see you using my terminology, Mantis <g>

<Then there is the enigma of the Atrium of Time.  Perhaps it resides
in the Real Present . . .>

I've always thought of the AoT as being the same kid of place that Madregot
flows through, i.e. outside the general scheme of Time. But, those people a=
nd
houses had to come from somewhere.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html

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