(urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

[Rob Thornton]

Could

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Cliff Judge <transentient at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for bringing this up, this gives me some food for thought with regard
> to the "down is up" thing I am on about lately.
>
> E.g. Typhon throws Severian into the sled, they plummet downwards, then
> arrive at the very top of Typon's mountain fastness, and Severian asks
> Typhon how they could have come up so high, when they had just fallen so
> far.

If I remember correctly, the Autarch's craft employs "anti-iron" as
some sort of contra-terrene matter that repels gravity. Maybe this
sled is made of such stuff and they are facing backwards?

Cautiously,

Rob