(urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Mon Dec 13 05:38:41 PST 2010


Right. It IS Kafkaesque.

On 12/12/2010 11:49 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
> On 12/12/2010 07:11 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> And the room was pretty clearly a large palatial room converted to 
> boring drop-ceiling partitioned office space.  One suspects that this 
> has been the fate of many monarchical buildings converted to 
> bureaucratic workplaces as the Type Of Government clanked along its 
> chain, in our time.  I think it is likely that Jonas, as the 
> representative of Near Future [Ea|U]rth is more familiar with 
> Cubeville than is Severian.
>
> The room's just a waiting room in bland government offices, complete 
> with cookies and coffee urn.  It's just that the wait times have 
> become generational; indeed, eternal.
>
> Adam


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