(urth) The Outsider

[Son of Witz]

On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:17 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> On 12/17/2010 2:38 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
>> 
>> 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."
> 
> This is almost certainly an indirect reference to Kant, who used the term "island universes" when conjecturing that spiral nebula were not merely clouds of gas but galaxies like our own Milky Way. The Yesodis also use "creation" to mean "galaxy", and have a literal island devoted to each one humans inhabit.
> 
>> So I'm saying each creation, acording to the text, is not a closed system.
> 
> This is still true, but there's much less interchange between manvantaras than is otherwise suggested between Urth and Earth by G.W.
> 
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I'm cool with all that.