(urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Mon Jun 7 05:55:07 PDT 2010


In QBLH they are nested Worlds.

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>
> 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
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>> 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
>> IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
>> < http://ieeetamut.org >
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