(urth) spatial temporal rules of astral travel

[António Pedro Marques]

Well, what I can say is that all that is very well thought out. Maybe I 
dislike the Urth = Green conclusion in the same way that some dislike the 
idea that there are two mausoleums - the fact remains that there are two.

Marc Aramini wrote:
> Thanks Antonio.  I just feel like the huge evidence of sentient
> recombinatory hybridizing tree life is more than an echo of the Green
> Man future, and that the theme of the book is one of homecoming and
> change: you spend all this time trying to go home, and you realize its
> not your home (Silk arriving at Horn's house, knowing its not his home,
> the whorl winding up back at Urth but it being completely
> unrecognizable) I know those are kind of opposite themes, but it reminds
> me of the man crossing the river quote - you can't cross the same river
> twice, its not the same river and you aren't the same man. I feel that
> there is an important THEME of true homecoming being an impossibility
> because of changes in identity that is particularly satsified by the
> return to a world that is OBVIOUSLY not the cultural home of man. The
> story Horn has to enact where corpses are cleared from a stagnant water
> pool to allow a deluge, where he is given a sword, seems like a mythical
> retelling of Severian's tale, and I don't know what else to do with it.
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 12/23/10, António Pedro Marques /<entonio at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     I like parts of your exposition, Marc. It only seems to me that
>     after a number of insights and interesting deductions, some of your
>     conclusions (Urth = Green (or Blue, even, if it were), the time
>     lapses) are not up to the same standard. You've built quite an
>     interesting building, but I don't think the roof matches the
>     awesomeness of the rest.
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