(urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

Gerry Quinn gerryq at indigo.ie
Mon Jun 7 05:39:41 PDT 2010


You're right - I got them back to front.

But I still think Yesod and Briah are different universes, not the same 
univese at different times.

- Gerry Quinn


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
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Subject: Re: (urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe


> On 6/6/2010 11:13 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>>
>>> That's not really the interpretatation I am presenting. Urth becomes
>>> Ushas
>>> not Earth. Urth is part of an entire universe, named Briah, which Big
>>> Bangs
>>> into existence, runs its course then collapses and Grand Gnabs itself
>>> into
>>> a single mass and out of existence. This single mass then Big Bangs
>>> itself
>>> into a creation of the next universe which is called Yesod.
>>
>> Severian's universe (which is also ours IMO) is named Yesod.
>>
>> That of the Hierodules is called Briah.
>
> I'm afraid you've got that reversed from the texts. From the opening of 
> URTH's Chapter XV Yesod:
>
> "...I now saw our universe, a circle no larger than an ebon moon in the 
> sky of Yesod, ..."
>
> -- 
> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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> < http://ieeetamut.org >
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