(urth) The Morality of the Hierogrammates

[Paul B]

That's fine, but it's about as difficult to explain sudden global tectonic
shifts than it is to explain a flood.

On 7/23/07, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
> > I recently read the archive discussion about the theodicean aspect of
> > BotNS,
> > and the morality and necessity of the flood that accompanies the new
> sun.
> > One thing struck me, and if it's old hat, then I've not been thorough
> > enough
> > in reading the archives.  That thing is the precipitous pace of the
> flood,
> > which apparently takes Urth in a matter of days and surprises those at
> the
> > House Absolute by the time that Severian shows up.  A flood of Biblical
> > proportions, if you will.
> >
> > Now, one thing that has been jokingly asked of that one, can be
> seriously
> > asked of this: where does the water come from?
>
> The continents are drowned, new continents rise where the oceans are, the
> oceans move around. No new water required.
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-- 
Paul Borochin
PhD student, Fuqua School
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