(urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

[David Stockhoff]

Can "plane" be captain-speak for "hyperspace"? Or is "eternity" closer 
to that meaning?

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> When Severian was being returned to Urth from Yesod, the Ship somehow took a
> shortcut. Only a day or so after the trial, the Ship was just outside the
> Old Sun's system, somewhere "outside the circle of Dis." (XXVI, 186) Gunnie
> said:
>
> ------------------
> "You know what I mean. When I came on board with
> you, I thought we had a long voyage ahead of us. But why
> should they--Apheta and Zak--have done that? The
> ship's leaving eternity now, slowing down so the tender can
> find her. Until she slows down, she isn't really a ship at all,
> did you know? We're like a wave, or a shout going through
> the universe." (ibid.)
> -------------------
>
> The tender was waiting for them (187) and it took about another day for it
> to reach Urth. On the deck of the tender with Burdundofara, Sev complained
> to the tender captain about the rough ride to the surface:
>
> --------------------------
>     I managed to say that our arrival on Yesod had not been
> so violent.
>       He turned serious. "You didn't have much potential to
> lose there, you see. You'd used it up reaching the higher
> plane. We've come in without a rag to brake us, like we
> were falling into the star. Stay away from the railing for a
> bit. The wind there will broil the skin right off your arm." (XXVII, 193)
> --------------------------
>
> There it is again, as I said earlier, Yesod on a higher *plane*. And
> entropy. Not that this will make a damn bit of difference, but there it is.
>
> -Roy
>
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