(urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

There are suites on cruise ships.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> On board a ship, those "suites" would have been called something else:
> compartments, probably.
>
> "Suites' are found in office buildings and hotels.
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 12/13/10, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 11:55 AM
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>
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> From: "Adam Thornton" <adam at io.com <http://mc/compose?to=adam@io.com>>
>
>
> > On 12/12/2010 07:11 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyway, I don't want to get into a war over such details.  I am
> defending the theory, but as I said I am not wedded to it.  And our
> interpretations of BotNS do not stand or fall on the question of whether the
> Antechamber was or was not part of Jonas's starship.  But I ask again: has
> anyone any better explanation for Jonas's (confirmed) architectural
> observations and the other things I mentioned?
> > Architecture?
> >
> > Well, Jonas was from a time not that far in advance of ours, one in which
> recognizably Korean names were still familiar.
> >
> > And the room was pretty clearly a large palatial room converted to boring
> drop-ceiling partitioned office space.
>
> Actually, no.  It was several suites joined together.
>
> >  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.
>
> But is Jonas the representative of Near Future Urth?  He is a robot built
> to serve on a starship; he may well have been carried aboard in a box along
> with Hethor's paracoita. (Here's a thought - did Talos use bits of the
> paracoita to make Jolenta? Jonas's love explained at last!)
>
> Jonas might well never have seen Urth before his spaceship crashed there.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
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