(urth) Cumaean???
Matthew Malthouse
matthew at calmeilles.co.uk
Sat Dec 15 09:28:45 PST 2007
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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