(urth) Questions about BNS

[Adam Thornton]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> Adam Thornton wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Eric Ortlund wrote:
>>>
>>> 2) When Severian and Agia are in the Jungle Garden, the apparently
>>> travel in time and space (the story about Father Inire's mirrors
>>> apparently prepares the reader for this) to a missionary couple  
>>> in the
>>> jungle.  Can someone please explain to me what on earth the  
>>> native is
>>> talking about on pg. 131?  The woman in the couple reads from
>>> Deuteronomy 34 - about Moses looking into the promised land but not
>>> being able to enter it
>>>
>> This would be Severian and the Urth of the New Sun, is my  
>> reading.  In
>> addition to being a Christ figure he's a Mosaic figure--he brings his
>> world to salvation but does not himself get to enter the New World.
>
> Doesn't he? If the people who worship The Sleeper aren't on Briah,  
> where
> are they?
>
I thought they were on Urth's distant past, that he had swung himself  
backwards into time to when the New Sun was not yet, and hence was  
stuck.

I may well have misread that.  (Which is a general-purpose caveat in  
any of my readings of Wolfe.)

Adam