(urth) planetary problems

[Marc Aramini]

Yes, the question of what exactly Blue is remains a big problem of understanding what happened when the New Sun came,  why there is a city there underwater, maybe even what caused the eclipse that spared Severian's life in the time of Apu Punchau.  
 
I am going to re-read the entire cycle, but I have a feeling there is some cosmic event in Urth of the New Sun that can shed light on that - either a transplantation of Yesod, a movement of Urth itself, or maybe something that will reveal the New Sun is a hoax, that the orbit of the planet was altered or something.  I am really not sure and want to look at the descriptions of Apheta's planet, because there is a scene in Urth where Severian looks up and thinks Apheta is looking at him from the sky or something.  Need to find that quote.
 
 
Any hints that Yesod could have been altered or moved?  I have only read Urth of the New Sun twice, once when I was a little boy when it first came out, so my memory of that particular text is weak.  I have only read Short Sun twice as well, but that second time was with notes and a fine tooth comb as an adult.
 
Also a very freaky scene where Severian exits through his own ear to find himself in another mirror reality or something, I never fully understood the implications of that doubling ear to ear transfer when he is bowing at the Pelerines altar, I believe. 
Marc
 
--- On Mon, 12/27/10, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:


Marc,

I was as disturbed as you when the party in IGJ went to Urth by mistake. So, how do we get from the Urth of Severian to the planets of Blue and Green? How do you explain the loss of Lune or the huge change of orbits? For me, that was hurdle that made me decide, well, maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing. I wanted some attempt to explain that gap.

u+16b9



      
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