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Urth Digest, Vol 73, Issue 34

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Andrew Mason19 Sep 2010, 22:38as archived
Urth Digest, Vol 73, Issue 34
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Jeff Wilson wrote: On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald bench'. “Does anyone have any idea what this might be”
Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and mandragoras, etc. ? ? ? ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun.
Jeff Wilson20 Sep 2010, 06:27as archived
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On 9/19/2010 5:38 PM, Andrew Mason wrote: Jeff Wilson wrote:
On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald bench'. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and mandragoras, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun.
The sun references are intriguing, implying yet another time-loop, or perhaps that an autarch of the distant pre-Typhonian succession somehow knew something of what was to come.
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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