(urth) Fr Inire + Cumean + others

[Jeff Wilson]

On 7/17/2010 7:53 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> I'd guess something happened at that moment to put Severian into that
> perspective. Perhaps it wasn't Severian who slipped into 4 dimensions
> but the Cumaean.

He sees 4D on several occasions, generally whenever something departs 
into the Corridors of Time "in that direction I had never seen until I 
watched the ship vanish into it from the top of Baldanders's castle and 
could only see, it seemed, when there was something there. Immediately 
he turned and began to run, and despite the dimness of the dawn sky I 
could see his running figure for a long time, illuminated by 
intermittent but regular flashes. At last he faded to a point of 
darkness; but then, just when I expected that point to disappear 
utterly, it began to grow, so that I had the impression of something 
huge rushing toward me down that strangely angled tunnel."

I've seen the snake/pink worm metaphor used before with higher 
dimensionality, particularly Heinlein's "Lifeline", but Sev's visions of 
objects in the corridors seem more literal.

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