(urth) Thecla's fourth book

James B. Jordan jbjordan4 at cox.net
Mon Oct 2 05:56:05 PDT 2006


At 02:26 PM 10/1/2006, you wrote:

>JBJordan quoted and wrote:
> >>One place where this is evident is the last line of CITADEL. Severian,
>just
> >>before leaving Urth for Yesod, wrote that he was writing in what would be
> >>"the last year of the old sun." That turned out not to be true. For
>whatever
> >>reason, in URTH Wolfe made life go on on Urth for another forty years
>before
> >>the coming of the New Sun and the flood.
> >
> >I've been way too busy to keep up here, but I did catch this. If it
> >is really 40 years, then Wolfe has a basis in the New Testament. The
> >Old Creation ended in AD 30, at Pentecost, but did not fully end
> >until the Cataclysm (Flood, the Bible does call it that) in AD 70
> >with the destruction of Jerusalem, centre of the Olde Order. There is
> >a two-stage ending, for a variety of reasons into which I need not
> >go. Suffice to say that Wolfe may have had something like this in
> >mind, or might call on it if you pressed him !! :-[ Severian (type of
> >Jesus) made king in "30" and world ends fully in "70".
>
>Well, Severian was writing ten years after he became autarch. So the gap
>between his becoming "king" and the "Cataclysm" was actually fifty years for
>those who remained on Urth. I guess you could get around that by saying that
>he didn't really become "king" when he became autarch; rather, he became
>"king" when he decided to go to Yesod as Urth's Epitome.
>
>-Roy

At his "ascension" so to speak? Naw. If it's 50 years, then my 
suggestion falls, and the original suggestion that Wolfe changed some 
details remains.

Patera Nutria


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