(urth) House Absolute

[Jeff Wilson]

O'Donnell, Tim (BOSI) wrote:
> Likewise the mountains containing evidence of past ages.  What struck me 
> in this section of the job is how incredible the engineering job that 
> created these mountains of Auturchs was.  Severian at one point
> 
> wonders how the machinery could have passed this way.  Technology that 
> would allow an Auturch to carve their face in the mountain would surely 
> allow them to create artificial mountains using whatever building
> 
> material was to hand (digging deep into the Earth's crust even to obtain 
> the materials).

The mountain faces are precisely as believable as Mt. Rushmore and 
Georgia's Stone Mountain.

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