(urth) spatial temporal rules of astral travel

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> If Horn is like Severian then who, on Urth, is like the ghoul? My G.U.T. 
> has some answers.  Who
> keeps trying to kill Severian or at least thwart the coming of the New sun 
> and Flood? Who on
> Urth continues to control the governments of humanity, forcing them to 
> fight endless, pointless
> wars and, in some manner, feed off the corpses (as The Mother feeds off 
> dead sailors from
> shipwrecks caused by her siren). We know who is controlling the government 
> and directing the war
> effort of the Ascians. How about the Commonwealth?

If the Ascians are attacking the Commonwealth, defence against them is 
hardly a pointless war.

- Gerry Quinn