(urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

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


From: "Adam Thornton" <adam at 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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