(urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.

[David Stockhoff]

But drop ceilings are found in basements and office buildings. Are they 
also found in ships?

On 12/11/2010 1:00 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
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> From: "Gerry Quinn" <gerryq at indigo.ie>
>> From: "Andrew Mason" <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>
>>> Gerry Quinn wrote:
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>>> > Jonas served on an interstellar ship which crashed on Urth a 
>>> little > north of
>>> > Nessus. This ship became incorporated within the House Absolute; the
>>> > Antechamber was part of it. It was equipped with a set of mirrors 
>>> which
>>> > apparently had interstellar capability. (These may or may not be 
>>> the > same ones used by Fr. Inire.)
>>>
>>> Jonas was on an interstellar ship which crashed, certainly (which in
>>> itself supports your point). There also seems to have been a ship
>>> which crashed in the gorunds of the House Absolute, and whose
>>> passengers became residents of the antechamber. I don't see any
>>> evidence that it was the same ship - Jonas recognises the name 'Kim
>>> Lee Soong' as one that would have been common in his youth, but
>>> doesn't say 'Oh yes, he was an old mate of mine'. And I also don't see
>>> any evidence that the antechamber was _part_ of the ship - I took it
>>> that the passengers were found trespassing in the grounds of the House
>>> Absolute, and thrown into the antechamber, as such people are. (I also
>>> don't remember anything about Jonas's ship having mirrors, but I may
>>> just be forgetting that.)
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>> Remember, it was not just the name that Jonas recognised.  He also 
>> recognised the architecture "that was what we used to call a drop 
>> ceiling". And after they escaped from the Antechamber, Jonas 
>> immediately knew where to go to find the mirrors, which he used to 
>> escape somewhere off Urth (he said earlier "I know where we are.. we 
>> are on Urth").  I conclude that it was Jonas's ship, or one just like 
>> it - and it seems more elegant that it be the same vessel..
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>> Perhaps some of the ship's crew stayed aboard and were interned there 
>> pending resolution of their cases, and it later became used for other 
>> individuals.
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> Another piece of evidence for this - when Severian and Jonas were 
> arrested on the grounds of the House Absolute, they were led down into 
> a hollow in the ground.  I only realised just now that it must be a 
> crater left by the crashed spaceship.
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> It is interesting how much of the architecture of Urth is made up of 
> wrecked spacecraft!
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> - Gerry Quinn
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