(urth) Cumaean???

[carr law]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Malthouse" <matthew at calmeilles.co.uk>
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: (urth) Cumaean???


> At 22:44 14/12/2007, you wrote:
>>I'm guessing Dan'l is referring to the scene where Severian, IIRC,
>>describes climbing a sheer cliff with strata after strata of human
>>artifacts exposed by erosion.  How would a geologist account for that?
> 
> 
> And the miners of the village of Saltus mine artifacst and detrius of 
> habitation rather than minerals.
> 
> This could be from tels - mounds grown up from long habitation. But 
> the impression is given that this is the common condition across Urth 
> which would be some feat.
> 
> Those however are still not on a geological scale.  One thing that 
> does suggest those sorts of times.  The mountains that have since 
> Typhon's prototype all been carved into the likenesses of Urth's 
> autarchs.  When Severian comes across uncarved mountains we might 
> think that the carvers didn't reach that far.  But _he_ thinks that 
> they have been thrust up since the old mountains were carved.  And 
> this is close to where he decends that cliff of artifacts - I think 
> the reader is supposed to believe that geological ages have passed.
> 
> Pedro Pereira writes
>>South America seems to be basically the same as now
> 
> Except that the main drainage is not West to East but North to South?
> 
> If the continent has spun 90 degrees might we be allowed a few new 
> mountians in the process?
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> Si non confectus, non reficiat
> 
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