(urth) Urth & Earth (was "Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe")

[brunians at brunians.org]

I wonder if the iterative Worlds and the parallel Worlds can be identified.

I think maybe yes.

They can be next to each other in more than one dimension.

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> On the other hand, it is possible for a "Catholic Church" to have been
> established in the Commonwealth without a Jesus (complete with crosses)
> merely in correspondence to the vibrations of our Universe, just as in
> Green's dimension (There Are Doors) grooms wear black at weddings only
> because they do it in Lara's dimension.
>
> In that case, the Chapter is a parody of an echo. But somehow I find
> that less satisfying.
>
> J.
>
>> True for just about any character in a Wolfe story.
>>> I'm not sure how trustworthy a source Lemur is...
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM, James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Doesn't Wolfe undermine the idea that Urth's universe has no Jesus
>>>> in "The
>>>> Book of the Long Sun"? Lemur told Silk that Scylla founded the
>>>> Chapter as a
>>>> "parody of the state religion of her own whorl". I suppose it is
>>>> possible to
>>>> claim that that "state religion" was not Catholicism, but I don't
>>>> know why
>>>> anyone would bother.
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