(urth) House Absolute

[Jeff Wilson]

Tim Walters wrote:
>> I'm no archaeologist, but isn't the earth a city like UR is found in
>> considered rock and not just dirt.
> 
> Nope. Otherwise the artifacts would be fossilized.
> 
>> and if not, isn't it rocky enough for someone like Severian who knows of
>> Lightning rather than Electricity, to take a hardpacked sediment as rock?
>> I mean, you can stand on it. you can carve steps into it.
> 
> You can't build a cliff that tall out of it without it collapsing.
> 
> But for me this is somewhat beside the point. If the scene doesn't
> indicate deep futurity, then there's simply no reason for it to exist. I'm
> happy to accept felicitous implausibilities--in fact what I'm advocating
> is still rather implausible--but not ones that reduce rather than enhance
> the meaning of the text.

What a kind offer! What objective metric is being used by what fully 
informed party to judge the meaning of the text?

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