(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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