(urth) spatial temporal rules of astral travel
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Sat Dec 25 03:34:11 PST 2010
On 12/25/2010 1:53 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
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> Thanks to all for the Holiday Greetings!
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>> Son o'Witz: Well, his act still gives humanity the chance to live on. Whether they will be enslaved,
>> or an improved humanity is an open question. Severian's role does not seem to be to destroy these titans.
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> Witz, this reminds me that I've been operating on a few assumptions about Ushas which may need to be
> questioned. I'm thinking you are saying that the only purpose of Severian's efforts was the simple and
> obviousneed to fix the sun.
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> An assumption for many has been that the sun was deliberately broken, the black hole placed in its center
> (presumably by hierogrammates) because of the presence of Typhon or the Megatherians or some combination.
> So the fixing of the sun must involve the removal of such creatures if it is to have a real purpose.
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> But this interpretation need not be the case. Do you operate without it, holding the black hole in the sun
> to be a natural event?
ISTR the best black hole(s) explanation involved the black beans -
possibly supplied by the Yesodis but mis-used by humans in a bid to
control by destructive power.
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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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