Juturna and the skull

maa32 · 08 Jul 2003, 20:21 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) Juturna and the skull
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:21:45 -0700
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One thing has always bothered me about Sev's meeting with Juturna in Urth o=
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the New Sun: she doesn't know about saving him, but indicates that now that=20
she has been told, she will save him in the past and not allow him to drown=
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Does this imply that the Urth Severian is on at the conclusion of Urth of t=
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New Sun is a different iteration, a different timeline?  Has he traveled ev=
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further back into the previous cycle of existence?

If Juturna never saved him in that past timeline could the skull be his?  T=
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how was he alive to wed Valeria?  The multiple lifelines are disturbing.  I=
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there any way that Ash and the Green Man aren't mutually exclusive?  If the=20
future Urth is dragged into a past cycle, then one planet can have the gree=
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man and the other can have master ash. It is quite clear that in some=20
time-lines Severian is not the New Sun, right?  The timelines in which he d=
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as a child?  Or is that inconsequential?

Marc Aramini

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