(urth) UotNS and how it screws with your head

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Jul 13 09:12:05 PDT 2010


When?

Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I think it was the white fountain too.
>  
> Of course, there is another issue with the white fountain, which Mr. 
> Thallassocrat, at least, may find interesting.  The concept of a white 
> hole comes from the maximally extended Schwarzschild solution for a 
> black hole.  Few nowadays think that white holes exist in nature - but 
> if one does it should be associated with a black hole (though 
> perhaps in a different universe).
>  
> It would also make sense in that the result of combining the two 
> should be to negate both - this doesn't seem so probable if an 
> arbitrary black hole meets an arbitrary white hole.
>  
> Could Severian, therefore, also have created the black hole in the Sun?
>  
>  
> - Gerry Quinn
>  
>  
>
>     *From:* Cliff Judge <mailto:transentient at gmail.com>
>
>     And then they engage in what a couple of Wolfe's characters call
>     the "warm congress" and Severian says, I entered Yesod, or rather,
>     it enclosed about me, yada yada, and then he describes his orgasm
>     as this terribly serious cosmic event, and talks about something
>     that is conceived from the union. Then he states that what was
>     conceived was himself.
>
>     Now as a reader who has just decided that its pretty clear that
>     Dorcas is his grandmother, Ouen is his father, and btw I like the
>     idea that his mother is Catherine, of whom a khaibits is slain
>     every year at the Feast of Holy Katherine, there is something in
>     my brain that really WANTS to take the easy way out here and say,
>     right what was conceived was "himself" meaning the actual white
>     fountain that will replenish the sun of Urth.
>
>     But part of me is also thinking....yeah there it is, Severian is
>     his own father.
>
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