(urth) What's so Green about Ushas?

Adam Thornton adam at io.com
Wed Jul 16 09:37:14 PDT 2008


On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:15 AM, Tony Ellis wrote:

> Brooks, not brook, you notice. Severian goes on to say "Behind me
> along a line that seldom exists, Apu-Punchau, the Head of Day, stepped
> from his house and squatted to eat the boiled maize and roast meat his
> people had left for him." If the corridors only lead to different
> points in the same time-stream, I don't see how Severian can look back
> and see a reality that 'seldom exists'.

Note that something that "seldom exists" within the "Corridors of  
Time" has just about *got* to be a loving nod to Borges' "A New  
Refutation of Time."

Adam
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