(urth) The Key to the Universe

[David Stockhoff]

Is Apheta then speaking from within a singularity---before a 
star-building Big Bang? Does this explain the "yet unborn" remark?

This would require structure where I would have assumed there can be none.

Tony Ellis wrote:
> Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
>   
>>> The problem is that my idea is that any planets or stars in Yesod are
>>> fakes, only constructs that simulate the appearance and useful features
>>> of the authentic ones in Briah, for the convenience of the Yesodis.
>>>       
>> Fakes or not, they're matter an energy in a 'place' that should have neither
>> unless they're 'travelling in hyperspace'. Though I guess you can say
>> they're ships or animations on a ship's screen.
>>     
>
> As a point of interest, Apheta says the stars of Yesod aren't so much
> fakes as haven't been built yet, and they can only be seen because
> "time runs as we ask here, and we like their light." Chapter XX.
>
> That throwaway line is another of the reasons I don't think that Yesod
> can be an 'ordinary' Briahtic universe. For Apheta, Severian and
> everyone to experience time flowing in one direction, while elsewhere
> it's flowing in another... suggests there has to be something hyper
> about this place.
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