(urth) Maximinus Thrax

[Lane Haygood]

You know, something just struck me as I was rereading Dr. Talos' play,  
and now I don't have my book so I can't quote chapter and verse, but  
look at the section wherein Nod and the Prophet are talking.  Nod is  
talking about the white fountain coming to cure the black hole at the  
heart of the sun, and admits that it will cause death and destruction  
(eschatology) but that this follows in the natural sequence of the  
world.  Nod asks whether he should hate a wound because the wound does  
as it is its nature to do.  Maybe from a more global perspective, the  
coming of the New Sun isn't something that's the result of conscious  
moral agentive choice, but rather just a completely natural occurrence.

Of course, tucked in to Thomistic natural law hierarchy, this means  
that it is God's eternal nature which has decreed this to happen, so  
I'm not sure if God gets off the hook for eschatology, but certainly  
the Hieros and Severian are just cogs in the wheel if Nod is to be  
believed.

Lane

On Jul 11, 2008, at 2:01 PM, b sharp wrote:

>
> Matthew King I'm not sure if this impacts your post but I think it  
> is quite well established that
> The Commonwealth and Severian's journey in BotNS occurs in what  
> would be South America
> on Earth. If we accept that Severian putting mountains in the east  
> as a blunder then most of
> the rest of the geography, animals (even fossils), plants and human  
> culture matches that continent.
>
> I tried to trace his journey once using Buenos Aires as his Nessus  
> starting point and Lake Titicaca
> as the clear model for Lake Diuturna.  I found a town of Salto for  
> Saltus, Asuncion might be the
> location of the House Absolute. Iguazu Falls are The Cataracts, the  
> Pampas are the Pampas but I
> found Thrax to be a toughie. Maybe the city of Tarija, Bolivia is  
> the best match.
>
> -bsharp
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