(urth) The Outsider

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

That line is ambiguous, but I conservatively read that as meaning "between suns." In other words, a "creation" is a world in that case, not a universe. 
Perhaps a survey of Severian's use of that term is in order.

--- On Fri, 12/17/10, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:

From: Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) The Outsider
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 3:38 PM


Yes, my point was that we have a book that crossed from one creation to the other, so we may have other things, which may be the Astronaut Painting, which is NOT a photo, so it's not impotant that no one can pinpoint it.  I think it's likely that it SHOULD be understood as an Earth Astronaut with a USA flag, beacuse Wolfe was the script supervisor on the (aborted) Innovation Comics adaptation. The image shown is as I describe. I think he would have vetoed that if it was wrong.
But it doesn't address incarnation, which is why I changed the subject. I was breaking a tangent off from the Christ discussion.
Also, Master Ultan says that the library houses "books cased in perfumed woods shipped across the inconceivable gulf between creations - books doubly precious because no one on Urth can read them."
So I'm saying each creation, acording to the text, is not a closed system.


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