(urth) Abaia and the undines

[Son of Witz]

FWIW, the ? marks in this should mostly be periods

On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Son of Witz wrote:

> along that line of reasoning, the Old Autarch's dialogue could  
> possibly add some support.  From the "Autarch of the Commonwealth  
> chapter in Citadel:
> """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> "You were right to hate me, Severian. I stand? as you will stand?
> for so much that is wrong."
>
> "Why?" I asked. "Why?" I was on my knees beside him.
> "Because all else is worse. Until the New Sun comes, we have but a
> choice of evils. All have been tried, and all have failed. Goods in
> common, the rule of the people? everything. You wish for
> progress? The Ascians have it. They are deafened by it, crazed by
> the death of Nature till they are ready to accept Erebus and the rest
> as gods. We hold humankind stationary? in barbarism. The
> Autarch protects the people from the exultants, and the exultants?
> shelter them from the Autarch. The religious comfort them. We
> have closed the roads to paralyze the social order?"
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